All Jacques Derrida Quotes
- Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try… Any
- In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the… Accumulate
- The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any… All
- These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to… All
- Beauty only happens once. Beauty
- An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens… Act
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Funny
- No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but… Angry
- The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. Doe
- Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And… Anxiety
- Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. Arranged
- I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. Acceptable
- I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was… Ashamed
- Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? Easier
- As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene. Entered
- In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed… Algeria
- Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the… Decides
- The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound. Birth
- If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. Argued
- Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Analogous