“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: nature
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs,
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: knowledge
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I know but one freedom, and that
“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: freedom
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A rock pile ceases to be a
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: imagination
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Tell me who admires and loves you,
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: love
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True happiness comes from the joy of
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: design
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Life has meaning only if one barters
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: life
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from
“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 made.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Love does not consist in gazing at
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The machine does not isolate man from
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: technology
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