10 insightful quotes by jacques derrida
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
- Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
- No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
- If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn’t simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
- I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.
- Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
- The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
- We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.
- Surviving – that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
- I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others.
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