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Jacques Derrida Quotes

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior Picture Quote #1

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner Picture Quote #1

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death Picture Quote #1

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement Picture Quote #1

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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles Picture Quote #1

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology Picture Quote #1

I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible Picture Quote #1

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate Picture Quote #1

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try Picture Quote #1

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound Picture Quote #1

The boarding school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown Picture Quote #1

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides Picture Quote #1

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Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school Picture Quote #1

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? Picture Quote #1

But 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 Picture Quote #1

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts Picture Quote #1

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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages Picture Quote #1

The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always Picture Quote #1

What is called objectivity, scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions … and yet which still remains a context Picture Quote #1

Amy Kofman: Have you read all the books in here? Derrida: No, only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully Picture Quote #1

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays Picture Quote #1

Within the university... You can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent Picture Quote #1

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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior (Jacques Derrida Quotes) I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death (Jacques Derrida Quotes) The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing (Jacques Derrida Quotes) 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 (Jacques Derrida Quotes) It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement (Jacques Derrida Quotes) I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write (Jacques Derrida Quotes) 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 Quotes) Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology (Jacques Derrida Quotes) I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict (Jacques Derrida Quotes) 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 Quotes) My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible (Jacques Derrida Quotes) These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate (Jacques Derrida Quotes) These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try (Jacques Derrida Quotes) 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 Quotes) The boarding school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? (Jacques Derrida Quotes) But 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 Quotes) Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism (Jacques Derrida Quotes) 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 (Jacques Derrida Quotes) I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts (Jacques Derrida Quotes) The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages (Jacques Derrida Quotes) The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always (Jacques Derrida Quotes) What is called objectivity, scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions … and yet which still remains a context (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Amy Kofman: Have you read all the books in here? Derrida: No, only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully (Jacques Derrida Quotes) In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays (Jacques Derrida Quotes) Within the university... You can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent (Jacques Derrida Quotes)

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