Looks Quote by Jacques Derrida

“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

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

— Jacques Derrida

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

We are all mediators, translators.

— Jacques Derrida

“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.”

— Jacques Derrida

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

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

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

“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

“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in…

— Jacques Derrida

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

— Jacques Derrida

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