Resonances
Words that have crossed time. Voices that still resonate.
500+ philosophical quotes. Camus, Gary, Pascal, Genet and others. Organized by theme, movement and era.
Authors
Portraits, fragments of life and bibliographies. The voices that inhabit these places.
Apollinaire
1880 — 1918
Under the Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine. Guillaume loved poorly. Wrote well. He invented the word surrealism. And lived it.
Aristotle
384 — 322 av. J.-C.
The master of those who know. Aristotle thought everything. Logic, ethics, being. He taught you to think.
Artaud
1896 — 1948
The Theatre of Cruelty. Antonin screamed what others whispered. His madness was lucid. Terribly lucid.
Balzac
1799 — 1850
The Human Comedy. Honoré created two thousand characters. He worked at night. Black coffee. Creative fever.
Baudelaire
1821 — 1867
The flowers of evil. Charles found beauty in the mud. Golden spleen. He taught you that pain can be beautiful.
Beauvoir
1908 — 1986
One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone deconstructed everything. With gentleness. With rage. For you.
Bergson
1859 — 1941
Time is not what you think. Henri proved it. Duration flows in you. The elan vital carries you.
Camus
1913 — 1960
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert knew it. The sun, the sea, the revolt. Loving what kills us.
Celine
1894 — 1961
Journey to the end of the night. Louis-Ferdinand broke the French language to say the unspeakable. War. Misery. Humanity.
Char
1907 — 1988
Resister and poet. René wrote at night, with weapons within reach. His words still strike. Like lightning.
Charles Darwin
1809 — 1882
Evolution, not strength. Charles understood that we are all linked by the living. Adaptation as a secret.
Cioran
1911 — 1995
The trouble with being born. Emil didn't sleep. He wrote in the dark. Truths that burn. That console too.
Cocteau
1889 — 1963
Mirrors would do well to reflect. Jean touched everything. Poetry, cinema, drawing. His life was his work.
Deleuze
1925 — 1995
Desire, the rhizome, life. Gilles made philosophy a machine for creating concepts. Thought in motion.
Descartes
1596 — 1650
I think, therefore I am. René laid the foundations of reason. Doubt as a method toward the light.
Dostoevsky
1821 — 1881
If God does not exist, everything is permitted. Fyodor probed the Russian soul. Guilt. Redemption. The abyss.
Duras
1914 — 1996
The lover. Marguerite wrote of waiting. Desire. The silence between words. She still speaks to you.
Einstein
1879 — 1955
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert bent space-time. And kept his child's eyes.
Ernaux
1940 — Présent
Years pass. Annie catches them. With simple words. Precise memories. She writes your life too.
Flaubert
1821 — 1880
Madame Bovary, it is me. Gustave searched for the right word. Hours for a sentence. Perfection as the horizon.
Foucault
1926 — 1984
Discipline and Punish. Michel explored the folds of power and knowledge. An archaeology of our present.
Gandhi
1869 — 1948
Be the change you want to see. Mohandas liberated a people. Without violence. With faith.
Gary
1914 — 1980
With maternal love, life makes you a promise at dawn that it never keeps. Romain knew it. He wrote anyway.
Genet
1910 — 1986
He made a cathedral of prison. Of betrayal, a sacrament. Jean wrote as one steals: with grace.
Gide
1869 — 1951
Families, I hate you. André sought his truth. Against conventions. Against himself. Nobel of sincerity.
Giono
1895 — 1970
The man who planted trees. Jean loved Provence. The hills. Simple people. He wrote the earth.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
More light! Johann was a world unto himself. Poet, scientist, visionary. The genius of Weimar.
Houellebecq
1956 — Présent
Extension of the domain of struggle. Michel looks at the modern world without illusion. It is cold. It is true. It hurts.
Hugo
1802 — 1885
Ocean. Victor was a titan. He sang of the wretched, defied kings, loved the light. His voice still resonates.
Kafka
1883 — 1924
One morning, Gregor Samsa woke up transformed into an insect. Franz wrote your nightmares. Your anxieties. Your absurd.
La Fontaine
1621 — 1695
The reason of the strongest is always the best. Jean made animals speak. To tell us the truth.
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 — 1519
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo saw everything, drew everything, dreamed everything. The total eye.
Malala Yousafzai
1997 — Présent
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. Malala proved it.
Mallarme
1842 — 1898
The flesh is sad and I have read all the books. Stéphane sought the absolute in the white of the page. Silence speaks.
Malraux
1901 — 1976
Art is an anti-destiny. André cried it. Adventurer, minister, visionary. He lived as he wrote: on fire.
Marcus Aurelius
121 — 180
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Marcus Aurelius ruled Rome. And himself.
Marie Curie
1867 — 1934
Nothing is to be feared, everything is to be understood. Marie discovered radium. Two Nobels.
Martin Luther King
1929 — 1968
I have a dream. Martin dreamed standing up. Equality. Justice. His dream lives on.
Maupassant
1850 — 1893
Life is a slope. Guy climbed it by observing others. Their cowardice. Their greatness. Their madness.
Maya Angelou
1928 — 2014
People will forget what you said, but never how you made them feel. Maya was the voice of dignity.
Michelangelo
1475 — 1564
I live and hope in my own death. Michelangelo carved the sky in stone. The titan of the Renaissance.
Moliere
1622 — 1673
The duty of comedy is to correct men. Jean-Baptiste laughed. To better tell the truth.
Montaigne
1533 — 1592
What do I know? Michel painted himself. Without makeup. With humor. He invented the essay. And honesty.
Nelson Mandela
1918 — 2013
It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson waited 27 years. Then he forgave.
Nietzsche
1844 — 1900
What does not kill you makes you stronger. Friedrich danced on the ruins. God is dead. You, you live.
Nikola Tesla
1856 — 1943
The present is theirs. The future belongs to me. Nikola invented alternating current.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar made his life a work of art. Elegance against seriousness.
Pascal
1623 — 1662
The silence of infinite spaces frightened him. So he wagered. On God. On us. On the vertigo of existence.
Picasso
1881 — 1973
Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo broke forms to liberate the gaze. An inventor of worlds.
Plato
428 — 348 av. J.-C.
The cave. The shadows. The light. Plato showed you the way. Toward ideas. Toward yourself.
Prevert
1900 — 1977
Dead leaves are gathered by the shovelful. Jacques spoke simply. For lovers. Children. Dreamers.
Proust
1871 — 1922
A madeleine. And everything returns. Marcel mapped memory. Every memory is a country. You know it.
Rimbaud
1854 — 1891
I is another. Arthur was sixteen. He burned everything. Poetry. Then silence. Soles of wind.
Rosa Parks
1913 — 2005
No. A simple word that changed everything. Rosa stayed seated so that an entire people could stand up.
Rousseau
1712 — 1778
Man is born good, society corrupts him. Jean-Jacques walked alone. He dreamed of a better world. For you.
Sagan
1935 — 2004
Bonjour Tristesse. Françoise was eighteen. She understood everything. Golden boredom. Fleeing love. Grave lightness.
Saint-Exupery
1900 — 1944
One sees clearly only with the heart. Antoine flew. And wrote. He knew the essential is invisible to the eyes.
Sartre
1905 — 1980
Hell is other people. But freedom too. Jean-Paul condemned you to choose. At every moment. Without excuse.
Schweitzer
1875 — 1965
He left everything to heal. Africa, the forgotten, life. Albert believed every being deserves respect. Even you.
Seneca
4 av. J.-C. — 65
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. Seneca taught the art of living. And dying.
Shakespeare
1564 — 1616
To be or not to be. William said it all. Love, death, power. Four centuries. Always true.
Socrates
470 — 399 av. J.-C.
I know that I know nothing. Socrates asked questions. Nothing but questions. To deliver minds.
Stendhal
1783 — 1842
The crystallization of love. Henri Beyle chased happiness. In salons. In hearts. Always elsewhere.
Stephen Hawking
1942 — 2018
Look at the stars, not your feet. Stephen was grounded. His mind, however, traveled.
Steve Jobs
1955 — 2011
Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve wanted to change the world. He did. With a fruit.
Tolstoy
1828 — 1910
If you want to be happy, be. Leo probed the human soul and war. A quest for absolute truth.
Valery
1871 — 1945
The wind rises, we must try to live. Paul peered into the mind as one peers at the sea. With patience. With vertigo.
Van Gogh
1853 — 1890
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Vincent painted with his blood. Light at the end of despair.
Virginia Woolf
1882 — 1941
A room of one's own. Virginia explored the meanders of consciousness. Life as a lighthouse in the night.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
Let us cultivate our garden. François-Marie laughed at the powerful. His irony was a weapon. Against injustice. Against stupidity.
Yourcenar
1903 — 1987
First woman in the Academy. Marguerite crossed centuries as one crosses a room. With elegance. Without haste.
Zola
1840 — 1902
I accuse. Émile defended Dreyfus. Alone against all. He wrote the truth of mines, bellies, men.
