When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry. Antoine de Saint-Exupery yawning important children If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. Antoine de Saint-Exupery three spring water I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again. Antoine de Saint-Exupery one-day stars heaven if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns? Antoine de Saint-Exupery flower doe sheep What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sight littles men I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Antoine de Saint-Exupery hats drawing elephants And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. Antoine de Saint-Exupery lovely laughter taken We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. Antoine de Saint-Exupery fashion together men My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. Antoine de Saint-Exupery wheat-fields monotonous-life men Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. Antoine de Saint-Exupery witty trying lying It's hard luck always having to be a judge. Antoine de Saint-Exupery hard luck judging Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another. Antoine de Saint-Exupery change men two What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery method aim fruit Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. Antoine de Saint-Exupery horror prison purpose The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stones sun way Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity? Antoine de Saint-Exupery natural heart needs Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens. Antoine de Saint-Exupery garden dancing museums No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. Antoine de Saint-Exupery truth sleep men When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing. Antoine de Saint-Exupery unbelief prove dies It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war. Antoine de Saint-Exupery broken bread war
