《论语》是孔子及其弟子言论的汇编，由孔子门生及再传弟子集录整理；是儒家的重要经典，是研究孔子及儒家思想尤其是原始儒家思想的主要资料。南宋时朱熹将《论语》、《孟子》、《大学》、《中庸》合为“四书”，使之在儒家经典中的地位日益提高。今本《论语》共计20篇，1.2万字。

The Analects (traditional Chinese: 論語; simplified Chinese: 论语; pinyin: Lún Yǔ), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. It is the most important of all the confucian works and consists of 20 chapters and 12,000 characters.