Quotes

“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"” Sigmund Freud

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Sigmund Freud

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“One is very crazy when in love.” Sigmund Freud

“Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” Sigmund Freud

“The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” Sigmund Freud

“One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.” Sigmund Freud

“We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.” Sigmund Freud

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” Sigmund Freud

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” Sigmund Freud

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” Sigmund Freud

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” Sigmund Freud