Derrida Quote by Terry Eagleton Download Open image “When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.” — Terry Eagleton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Derrida
“And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
“As Marguerite Derrida puts it: ‘I’ve always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.” — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“It is not the different practice from one another that breaks the Peace and Unity, but judging of one another because of differing practices.” — Isaac Penington Copy Share Image
“If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.” — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You… — John R. Searle Copy Share Image
“People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What we consume now is not objects or events, but our experience of them. Just as we never need to leave our cars, so… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I was in college, it was Jacques Derrida. Everyone was dropping quotes. I remember thinking that was important - and I don't say… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Woman is the opposite, the ‘other’ of man: she is non-man, defective man, assigned a chiefly negative value in relation to the male first… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to a degree,… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests of American… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Me and Kirby are very collaborative and it changes from film to film. The first project we worked on together, Derrida, we co-directed. The… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
