Assumption Quote by Timothy Morton Download Open image “The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.” — Timothy Morton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assumption Derrida Talking
“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
“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of the 1950s,… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Admitting that his distance probably contained ‘a sort of crypto-Communist legacy’, Derrida spoke in more detail about his attitude to the student movement in… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. — Philip Selznick Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
