Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Quotes From The Little Prince
Quotes from the Little Prince
written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they demand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
If you were to say to the grown-ups: “I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,” they would not be able to get an idea of that house at all. You have have to say to them: “I saw a house that cost $20,000.” Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
----------"What is essential is invisible to the eye"...it was a graffiti in one of the classrooms at the College of Architecture...students then were encouraged to draw or paint on the wall to express their artistry ...I surmised a senior doing thesis wrote it in the wee hours of the morning to express frustration when you ran out of ideas for your design or project.
To put it in it's proper pespective the author hit it bulls eye for the grown ups...we often look not with our heart but with our calculating mind...often times it is not the person's character that we look at but his car-racter.
I'm posting this as a reminder. For I too am often lost in what C Lauper calls a "materialistic world".
