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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

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


Note 

Note



Meaning: Intelligence has meaning only in implementing love.



Translation

Translation

(French, German, Italian)



French
L'intelligence ne vaut qu'au service de l'amour.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

German
Die Vernunft ist nur im Dienst der Liebe etwas wert.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Italian
L'intelligenza vale solo se al servizio dell'amore.



See also 

See also...



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

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
André Gide - Fruits of the Earth

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor W. Adorno

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela



Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten / 





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon / 





We have need of morality only for want of love.
André Comte-Sponville / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John / 






All about love...




Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Emanuel Swedenborg / 





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud / 





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell / 





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? / 





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 






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Quotes for: value


Quotes

Quotes for: value


One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll / 





The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein / 





One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir / 





There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 





Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 






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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 / 





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





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





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 







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