“Het solipsisme is geen verstandsverbijstering en geen sofisme; het is de wezenlijke structuur van de rede.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,… — Jacques Derrida 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
If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what… — Jacques Derrida 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
“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
“I remain ‘torn’ (between a ‘hyberbolic’ ethical vision of forgiveness, pure forgiveness, and the reality of a society at work in pragmatic… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“how can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida 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
“That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger—and philosophy should still wander toward the meaning of its death—or that… — 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
“The difference between the who and the what at the heart of love, separates the heart. It is often said that love… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put… — Jacques Derrida 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
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize;… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension of mourning… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
