All Jacques Derrida Quotes
- 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… According
- My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the… Alive
- Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. Certain
- What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. All
- I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. Always Dream
- Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be… Always Escapes
- I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. Believe
- The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. Dead
- Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. Announced
- I rightly pass for an atheist. Atheist
- Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. Another Name
- I speak only one language, and it is not my own. Inspirational
- Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. Cinema
- The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist… Beyond
- Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the… Alive
- Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides… Armistice
- A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules… Booked
- But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this… Accomplices
- We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon… Absolute
- Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. Awaited