Deconstruction Quote by John D. Caputo

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back…

— Kurt Busiek

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

— Eric Maisel

That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given…

— Jacques Derrida

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical,…

— Harold Bloom

“the great philosopher of deconstruction: in”

— Sarah Bakewell

“To deconstruct a concept is to analyze it in a way which reveals its construction—both in the temporal sense of its birth and development…

— Robert Jensen

All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they…

— Jacques Derrida

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of…

— Jacques Derrida

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These…

— John Bradshaw

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped;…

— Franz Kafka

When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!

— Judith Orloff