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Letter "A" » Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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«You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.»
«How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on»
«To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.»
«Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.»
«I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Criticism,
Mankind,
Right,
Self-respect,
Sin
| Keywords:
demean, demeaning, demeans, human being, Human eye, human right, matters, No self, self-respecting, self respect, sin, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
built, civilization, on that, provided, required
«Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
achieved, ADD, Nothing More, perfection, take away, There Is Nothing, There Is Nothing Left
«It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
contemplation, created, equal, equaled, equaling
«True love begins when nothing is looked for in return»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
in return, looked-for
«How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
acquiring, Die in, fullness, needful, possessing, to become
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