27 Quotes By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on respect

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on technology

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on time

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on truth

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on war

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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on work

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on love