(98 quotes found)
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten";”
“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.”
“More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning”
“Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back”
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”
“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.”
