L'Acropole est le symbole du savoir grec, avec ses grands philosophes et penseurs politiques qui ont jeté les bases de nos démocraties et de nos institutions.
The Acropolis is the symbol here for Greek scholarship, which with its great philosophers and political thinkers established the core of our democracies and state-building.
Je soupçonne que, pour notre génération, c'est un document qui a dicté notre attitude plus que tout autre document écrit par les grands philosophes politiques.
I suspect that, for our generation, it was almost as important a document in shaping our attitudes as any by the great political philosophers.
L'un des grands philosophes de notre siècle, à savoir le Dalaï-Lama, a un jour répondu à la question de savoir comment il s'y prenait face à tant de destructions et d'anéantissements sur la terre - et notamment dans son propre pays - qui vous paralysent momentanément.
One of the great philosophers of our century, the Dalai Lama, was once asked how he came to terms with the fact that there was still so much destruction and annihilation in the world - especially in his own country. "At the moment we cannot do anything about it' , he said.