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One Quotes by Jacques Derrida
- 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…
- 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…
- Who ever said that one was born just once?
- No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.
- One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
- 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…
- Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
- I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
- 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…
- 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…
- The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare