Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotations | Page 2

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

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.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.

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.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories ...

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.