Quote

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Lyons
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de St. Exupery
Saint-Exupery
Saint-Exupéry
Feels
Sight
Precisely
Men
Responsible
Settings
World
Pride
Stone
Building
Setting
Responsibility
Misery
Unmerited
Seems
Stones
Comrades
Take
Shame
Comrade
Feel
Victory
Contributing

More quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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
Image
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
It's useful because it's beautiful.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Image
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery