Philosophers

“Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον”

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

“Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung.”

“The world is my representation.”

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

“Wir leben heute in einer Welt, die sehr arm an Unterbrechung ist; das „Zwischen" und die „Zwischenzeiten" verschwinden.”

“Today, we live in a world that is very poor in interruption; "betweenness" and "between-times" are disappearing.”

“不闻不若闻之，闻之不若见之，见之不若知之，知之不若行之。”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“Οὐδεὶς ἐλεύθερος ὃς ἑαυτοῦ μὴ κρατεῖ.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

“Je höher wir uns erheben, desto kleiner erscheinen wir denen, die nicht fliegen können.”

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

“Il n'y a pas lieu de craindre ou d'espérer, mais de chercher de nouvelles armes.”

“There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”

“The banality of evil.”

“Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.”

“There is nothing outside the text.”

“Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.”

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”

“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.”

“道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。”

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

“La visibilité est un piège.”

“Visibility is a trap.”

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.”

“Ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“La naissance du lecteur doit se payer de la mort de l'Auteur.”

“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”

“Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”

“On ne naît pas femme : on le devient.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

“L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

“The function of ideology is not to offer us a point of escape from our reality but to offer us the social reality itself as an escape from some traumatic, real kernel.”

“Mennesker forlanger Ytringsfrihed som Erstatning for den Tænkefrihed, som de sjældent bruger.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“フェミニズムは弱者が強者になろうとする思想ではありません。弱者が弱者のままで尊重されることを求める思想です。”

“Feminism is not a thought that makes weak people strong. It is a thought that makes weak people remain weak and still be accepted as they are.”

“Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit verliert seine Aura.”

“The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction loses its aura.”

“吾生也有涯，而知也无涯。以有涯随无涯，殆已。”

“My life has a limit, but knowledge has none. To pursue what is limitless with what is limited is perilous.”