Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.' — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“Stretched out before the fire I looked at the glowing fruit and said to myself that men did not know what an orange was.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
