"The blindness that opens the eye is not……" — Jacques Derrida

"The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye."

— Jacques Derrida

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64 Quotes by Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
There is nothing outside the text
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance,…
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive…
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or…
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something…
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that…
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on…
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to…
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading,…
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be…

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More Blindness Quotes

This quote is filed under Blindness Quotes, one of 305 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so… — Andrea Bocelli
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. — Margaret Cho
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day… — Paulo Coelho
He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect.… — Henry Ward Beecher
I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all… — Unknown Author
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us… — Charles Caleb Colton
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than… — George Eliot

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