--- title: "5 Philosophical Discourse Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Philosophical Discourse quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Philosophical Discourse sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/jacques-derrida-3948_books_let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples_584485.jpg" --- > [“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-derrida/let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples-why-should-literature-still/) [Jacques Derrida](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-derrida/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/jacques-derrida-3948_books_let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples_584485.jpg) > [“The conversation can be serious, too, taking on the form of a grave philosophical discourse as the characters take turns to expound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taking-on-the-form-of-a-grave/) [Edward Whittemore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-whittemore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cab/edward-whittemore-29242_change_the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taki_2073255.png) > [Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-hadot/philosophy-reduced-as-we-have-seen-to-philosophical-discourse/) [Pierre Hadot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-hadot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/pierre-hadot-39367_ancient_philosophy-reduced-as-we-have-seen-to-ph_2602356.jpg) > [“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-derrida/for-the-same-reason-there-is-nowhere-to-begin-to-trace-the-sheaf-or/) [Jacques Derrida](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-derrida/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/992/jacques-derrida-3948_deconstruction_for-the-same-reason-there-is-nowhere-to_2740965.jpg) > [The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/the-philosophers-talk-across-the-centuries-exclusively-to-one-another/) [Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c7/rebecca-goldstein-4026_century_the-philosophers-talk-across-the-centuri_3095131.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophical-discourse/#itemlist", "name": "Philosophical Discourse Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name—or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can “what has always been conceived and signified under that name” be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a “book,” or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a “philosophical discourse”?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacques Derrida" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-derrida/let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples-why-should-literature-still/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/jacques-derrida-3948_books_let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples_584485.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/jacques-derrida-3948_books_let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples_584485.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/jacques-derrida-3948_books_let-us-being-again-to-take-some-examples_584485.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let us being again. 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It’s also our little star revolving around its own unknowable center and so with all the stars in their billions, and so with the galaxies and the universe itself. Change revolves and truly there is nothing but revolution. All movement is revolution and so is time, and although those laws are impossibly complex and beyond us, their result is simple. For us, very simple. And yet, this is where Whittemore’s great strength comes in: just as we are beginning to accept that this is more a philosophical treatise than a spy story, a pleasant meta-fiction, Whittemore suddenly pulls the strings taut with a dramatic piece of action worthy of Le Carré (more comparisons).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Whittemore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-whittemore/the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taking-on-the-form-of-a-grave/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cab/edward-whittemore-29242_change_the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taki_2073255.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cab/edward-whittemore-29242_change_the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taki_2073255.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cab/edward-whittemore-29242_change_the-conversation-can-be-serious-too-taki_2073255.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The conversation can be serious, too, taking on the form of a grave philosophical discourse as the…” — Edward Whittemore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life - unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pierre Hadot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-hadot/philosophy-reduced-as-we-have-seen-to-philosophical-discourse/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/pierre-hadot-39367_ancient_philosophy-reduced-as-we-have-seen-to-ph_2602356.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/pierre-hadot-39367_ancient_philosophy-reduced-as-we-have-seen-to-ph_2602356.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/pierre-hadot-39367_ancient_philosophy-reduced-as-we-have-seen-to-ph_2602356.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a…” — Pierre Hadot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into question is precisely the quest for a rightful beginning, an absolute point of departure, a principal responsibility. The problematic of writing is opened by putting into question the value of the arkhe. What I will propose here will not be elaborated simply as a philosophical discourse, operating according to principles, postulates, axioms, or definitions, and proceeding along the discursive lines of a linear order of reasons. In the delineation of differance everything is strategic and adventurous. Strategic because no transcendent truth present outside the field of writing can govern theologically the totality of the field. Adventurous because this strategy is a not simple strategy in the sense that strategy orients tactics according to a final goal, a telos or theme of domination, a mastery and ultimate reappropriation of the development of the field. Finally, a strategy without finality, what might be called blind tactics, or empirical wandering if the value of empiricism did not itself acquire its entire meaning in opposition to philosophical responsibility. If there is a certain wandering in the tracing of differance, it no more follows the lines of philosophical-logical discourse than that of its symmetrical and integral inverse, empirical-logical discourse. The concept of play keeps itself beyond this opposition, announcing, on the eve of philosophy and beyond it, the unity of chance and necessity in calculations without end.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacques Derrida" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-derrida/for-the-same-reason-there-is-nowhere-to-begin-to-trace-the-sheaf-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/992/jacques-derrida-3948_deconstruction_for-the-same-reason-there-is-nowhere-to_2740965.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/992/jacques-derrida-3948_deconstruction_for-the-same-reason-there-is-nowhere-to_2740965.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/992/jacques-derrida-3948_deconstruction_for-the-same-reason-there-is-nowhere-to_2740965.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. 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