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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery: It is only with the heart...


Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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

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Translation

Translation

(French, German, Spanish, Italian)



French
On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

German
Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Spanish
Sólo se ve bien con el corazón; lo esencial es invisible a los ojos.

Italian
È solo con il cuore che si vede bene; l'essenziale è invisibile agli occhi.



See also 

See also...



We admire the world through what we love.
Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods



Quotes for: heart


Quotes

Quotes about heart:


Hope stole into my heart against my will.
Jean Racine - Phèdre / 





A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield / 





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The long sobs
Of the violins
Of autumn
Hurt my heart
With a monotonous
Languor
Paul Verlaine / 





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde / 






All about heart...




Quotes

Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch / 





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei - The Assayer / 





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière / 





The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 






All eyes quotes...




Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery also said...


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle / 





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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





Language is a source of misunderstanding.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 







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