“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.” — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission:… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild,… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“A timely and necessary guide for anyone caught between religion and non-belief. There is a third path -- guided by reason, grounded… — S.D. Hagen Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
“and it all comes down to this a gospel written in the living an incantation we pass hand to hand soul to… — Stephanie Greene Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create… — Jeffrey Fischer Copy Share Image
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“A post-modern economy can have the result that everyone lives only for themselves, and not at all for the community – the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“deconstruction is an attempt to break through hardened structures and traditions for the purpose of reengaging the stimulating, life-giving substance that gave… — J. R. Daniel Kirk Copy Share Image
I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“In the middle of ‘Monicagate’, Bill Clinton himself used deconstruction in his own defence. Accused of lying when he had claimed not… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“King Kranlin became dizzily aware that day was now indiscernible from night, that selfness was essentially the same as otherness, that all… — Douglas Hackle Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
“It sees post-rock as an archipelago: islands that may speak different languages and are probably only on nodding terms with one another.… — Jeanette Leech Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
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