"Here is my secret. It is very..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“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 sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.”
“Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.”
More on Truth
“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“The Universe energy doesn't lie.”
More on Perception
“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.”
“Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.”
“For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.”