Antoine De Saint Exupery quotes

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.