All Jacques Derrida Quotes
- Beyond the touchline there is nothing. Beyond
- There is nothing outside the text Funny
- A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer… According
- Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for… Absolute
- Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death. Continue
- The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility… Absolutely
- That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to… Absolutely
- The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It… Already Come
- I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. All
- I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable… Believe
- I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life… African
- I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. Difficult
- Who ever said that one was born just once? Born
- No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing. Changes
- If things were simple, word would have gotten around. Funny
- It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia… Absolute
- One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. Inspirational
- Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I… Demand
- I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that… All
- I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at… Answer