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.
No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.
On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
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