You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that external beauty is meaningless without inner substance or depth.
In this quote, Antoine De Saint-Exupery conveys a profound truth about the nature of beauty and worth. While someone may possess striking physical beauty, it is their inner qualities, such as character, empathy, and emotional depth, that truly define their value. The mention of emptiness implies that beauty alone is not enough to inspire deep emotional connections or sacrifices, as love and commitment require substance beyond mere appearances.
In practice
During a discussion about the importance of character over looks at a school assembly.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've 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 much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.
Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well, what do you know that we don't?' That's what Trump does all the time.
All religions and cultures suffer from sources that preach hate against the 'other.' Throughout history some have, tragically, practiced what their sources preached, while some have sought to dismiss or even counteract the hateful words of their sources.
I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.
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