--- title: "7 Deconstructionism Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Deconstructionism quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Deconstructionism sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/jonathan-miller-21525_against_i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-w_51385.jpg" --- > [I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-work-but-i-think-what-you-have/) [Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/jonathan-miller-21525_against_i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-w_51385.jpg) > [So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cage/so-somebody-has-talent-so-what-dime-a-dozen-and-we-re-overpopulated/) [John Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/john-cage-2094_art_so-somebody-has-talent-so-what-dime-a-do_69736.jpg) > [Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/intellectuals-resist-faith-longer-because-they-can-where-ordinary/) [Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d5/peter-kreeft-820_absolutes_intellectuals-resist-faith-longer-becaus_704444.png) > [“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-had-not-particularly-liked-the-way-in-which-he-wrote-about/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/christopher-hitchens-117_books_i-had-not-particularly-liked-the-way-in_1317344.jpg) > [I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-tried-for-the-longest-time-to-find-out-what-deconstructionism-was/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e7/margaret-atwood-40_able_i-tried-for-the-longest-time-to-find-out_1701030.jpg) > [“Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/yesterday-s-deconstructions-are-often-tomorrow-s-orthodox-clich-s/) [Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a78/stuart-hall-17324_deconstructionism_yesterday-s-deconstructions-are-often-to_2260552.jpg) > [“There are lots of things I don't understand - say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-lots-of-things-i-don-t-understand-say-the-latest-debates/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f61/noam-chomsky-42_deconstructionism_there-are-lots-of-things-i-don-t-underst_2963512.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deconstructionism/#itemlist", "name": "Deconstructionism Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Miller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-work-but-i-think-what-you-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/jonathan-miller-21525_against_i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-w_51385.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/jonathan-miller-21525_against_i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-w_51385.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/jonathan-miller-21525_against_i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-w_51385.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous…” — Jonathan Miller", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So somebody has talent? 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That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Kreeft" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/intellectuals-resist-faith-longer-because-they-can-where-ordinary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d5/peter-kreeft-820_absolutes_intellectuals-resist-faith-longer-becaus_704444.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d5/peter-kreeft-820_absolutes_intellectuals-resist-faith-longer-becaus_704444.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d5/peter-kreeft-820_absolutes_intellectuals-resist-faith-longer-becaus_704444.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light…” — Peter Kreeft", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-had-not-particularly-liked-the-way-in-which-he-wrote-about/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/christopher-hitchens-117_books_i-had-not-particularly-liked-the-way-in_1317344.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/christopher-hitchens-117_books_i-had-not-particularly-liked-the-way-in_1317344.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/christopher-hitchens-117_books_i-had-not-particularly-liked-the-way-in_1317344.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on…” — Christopher Hitchens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. 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But from 50 years in this game, I have learned two things: (1) I can ask friends who work in these areas to explain it to me at a level that I can understand, and they can do so, without particular difficulty; (2) if I'm interested, I can proceed to learn more so that I will come to understand it. Now Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Kristeva, etc. -- even Foucault, whom I knew and liked, and who was somewhat different from the rest -- write things that I also don't understand, but (1) and (2) don't hold: no one who says they do understand can explain it to me and I haven't a clue as to how to proceed to overcome my failures. That leaves one of two possibilities: (a) some new advance in intellectual life has been made, perhaps some sudden genetic mutation, which has created a form of \"theory\" that is beyond quantum theory, topology, etc., in depth and profundity; or (b) ... 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