Echoes

“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.”

“Je voudrais que chaque vie humaine soit de la pure liberté transparente.”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“Soyons reconnaissants aux personnes qui nous donnent du bonheur ; elles sont les charmants jardiniers par qui nos âmes sont fleuries.”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“自由と独立と己れとに充ちた現代に生まれた我々は、その犠牲としてみんなこの淋しみを味わわなくてはならないでしょう。”

“You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”

“Unsere Ausbreitung über die Erde war befeuert durch die Reduktion der höheren Vegetationsformen zu Holzkohle, durch das unablässige Verbrennen alles Brennbaren. Die menschliche Zivilisation war von jeher nichts als ein von Stunde zu Stunde intensiver werdendes seltsames Leuchten, von dem keiner sagen kann, wann es schwächer werden und wann es verlöschen wird.”

“Our spread over the earth was fuelled by reducing the higher species of vegetation to charcoal, by incessantly burning whatever was combustible. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.”

“Le beau est toujours bizarre.”

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”

“黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛，我却用它寻找光明。”

“The dark night gave me black eyes, yet I use them to seek the light.”

“You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart.”

“Top girls don't put themselves forward, / top girls seize the day. / Top girls keep their nerve and look / as if they're having a wonderful time.”

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”

“The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.”

“Exister, c'est protester sans le savoir. Toute forme de vie comporte un excès de force, d'expansion; être n'est que violation de ce qui nous entoure.”

“To exist is to protest without knowing it. Every form of life involves an excess of force, of expansion; being is nothing but violation of what surrounds it.”

“Es gibt nichts, was der Mensch mehr fürchtet, als die Berührung durch das Unbekannte. Er will sehen, was nach ihm greift, er will es erkennen oder zumindest einreihen können.”

“There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it.”

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

“It's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“六才にして物の形状を写すの癖ありて”

“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an infinity of designs, but all I produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account.”

“L'art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“My goal is to erase architecture. I want to make an architecture that disappears into the environment.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“I believe in an emotional architecture. It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“Good composition is only the strongest way of seeing. It cannot be taught, because it is not a set of rules but a state of heightened awareness. When you are fully present before your subject, the composition reveals itself — the frame finds its own edges.”

“The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.”

“La mode se démode, le style jamais.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“Experimental is not a dirty word.”

“Don't try to be original, just try to be good.”

“We are stardust, we are golden, / And we've got to get ourselves / Back to the garden.”

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.”

“I found a piano that had been drowned in the tsunami, totally out of tune. I thought it was beautiful. Nature tuned it.”

“I think a good film is one that has a lasting power and you start to reconstruct it right after you leave the theatre.”

“I think a good film is one that has a lasting power and you start to reconstruct it right after you leave the theatre. There are a lot of films that seem to be very good but you forget them the minute you leave the theatre. Other films grow inside you.”

“I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive."”

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”

“Le désir de l'homme est le désir de l'Autre.”

“Desire is the desire of the Other.”

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected.”

“Hemos sido gobernados más por el engaño que por la fuerza, y hemos sido más degradados por el vicio que por la superstición. La esclavitud es la hija de las tinieblas; un pueblo ignorante es un instrumento ciego de su propia destrucción.”

“We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the offspring of darkness; an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.”

“We should not assume that what happened was bound to happen. People made choices, and those choices were conditioned by the experiences and resources available to them.”

“前事不忘，后事之师。”

“Those who look to the past will find a guide for the future.”

“The twentieth century is hardly behind us but already its quarrels and its ideals, its hopes and its fears are slipping into obscurity.”

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.”

“Quand le taux de rendement du capital dépasse durablement le taux de croissance de la production et du revenu — ce qui était le cas jusqu'au XIXe siècle, et risque fort de redevenir la norme au XXIe siècle —, le capitalisme produit mécaniquement des inégalités insoutenables, arbitraires, remettant radicalement en cause les valeurs méritocratiques sur lesquelles se fondent nos sociétés démocratiques.”

“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”

“If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something.”

“如果记忆也是一个罐头的话，我希望这罐罐头不会过期。如果一定要加一个日子的话，我希望是一万年。”

“If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.”

“Är det så grymt otänkbart att fatta Gud med sina sinnen? Varför ska han gömma sig i ett dis av halvkvädna löften och osedda under?”

“Is it so cruelly inconceivable to grasp God with the senses? Why should He hide Himself in a mist of half-spoken promises and unseen miracles? How can we have faith in those who believe when we can't have faith in ourselves? What is going to happen to those of us who want to believe but aren't able to?”