"If this work seems so threatening, this is……" — Jacques Derrida
"If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction."
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64 Quotes by Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida has 64 quotes on this site.
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Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
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There is nothing outside the text
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance,…
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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive…
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Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
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The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or…
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That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something…
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The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that…
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on…
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to…
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading,…
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be…
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the…
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the…
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
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