"I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going."
― Jacques Derrida
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"Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?"
― Jacques Derrida |
"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
― Jacques Derrida |
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"One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says."
― Jacques Derrida |
"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself." ― Jacques Derrida |
"Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die."
― Jacques Derrida
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"There is nothing outside the text." ― Jacques Derrida |
"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene."
― Jacques Derrida
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"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
― 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 the past, as well as singular works of our own time."
― Jacques Derrida |
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