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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

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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Quotes for: contemplation


Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.





Good is not something to contemplate; it is something to be done.





The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.





Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.





Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.





The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.











Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery also said...


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Language is a source of misunderstanding.












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