The quote "Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;…" is famous quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), French writer and aviator.
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Variant translations: Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Le Petit Prince (1943)
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Le Petit Prince (1943)
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
“The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.”
Introduction (p. xxiv)
1815 - 1830, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1822 – 1824)
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
“It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.The weather and the giant of the weather,
Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air:
An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.</p
“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
Variant: Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
Source: The Princess Bride
“5519. What the Eye sees not, the Heart rues not.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“My personality is not defined by what you can see with your eyes.”
"Trapped"
