I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned. — 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
