“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Emilio Insolera (1979) Actor and film producer
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince
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)
“It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
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
“5519. What the Eye sees not, the Heart rues not.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Marie Fabien Raharilamboniaina (1968)
Source: Pope sends message as new Cathedral blessed in Madagascar https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-05/pope-francis-blesses-new-cathedral-saint-joseph-madagascar.html (1 May 2021)
“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.”
Vulgo dicitur: Quod non videt oculus, cor non dolet.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
In Festo Omnium Sanctorum, Sermo 5, sect. 5; translation from Scottish Notes and Queries, 1st series, vol. 7, p. 59
Context: It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.
“what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over”
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
Source: The Zahir
“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”
Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend
Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend