A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a ... -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.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer and aviator. He is best known for his novella "The Little Prince," which has become one of the most translated and best-selling books in the world. Saint-Exupéry's writing often explored themes of human nature, love, and the importance of imagination and wonder. His works, including "Night Flight" and "Wind, Sand and Stars," showcased his poetic style and deep insights into the human condition. Saint-Exupéry's life was tragically cut short during a reconnaissance mission in World War II, but his literary legacy continues to inspire readers around the globe.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes to Explore

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was...
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away....
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus....
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'...
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them....
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known....
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them....
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral....
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something....
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind....

Imagination Quotes to Explore

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...