Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact