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)
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
“The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.”
Introduction (p. xxiv)
1815 - 1830, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1822 – 1824)
“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
“5519. What the Eye sees not, the Heart rues not.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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.
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”
Source: The Zahir
