A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
He who would travel happy must travel lite.
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
I still fall for your everyday.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.
Straight ahead you can't go very far.
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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