if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
One must observe the proper rites.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
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