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Jacques Derrida Quotes: "The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye."

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything"

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything




Jacques Derrida Quotes: "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."

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: "If things were simple, word would have gotten around."

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.




Jacques Derrida Quotes: "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend."

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets."

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe."

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.




Jacques Derrida Quotes: "The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language."

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says."

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "There is nothing outside the text"

There is nothing outside the text



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited."

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.




Jacques Derrida Quotes: "I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die."

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently)."

I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "I speak only one language, and it is not my own."

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived."

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Who ever said that one was born just once?"

Who ever said that one was born just once?



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Beyond the touchline there is nothing."

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "We are all mediators, translators."

We are all mediators, translators.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts."

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



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself."

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 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."

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: "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."

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: "As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene."

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.



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."

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: "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."

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: "What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written."

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Beauty only happens once."

Beauty only happens once.



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."

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: "I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap."

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language."

In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.



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."

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: "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."

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.



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."

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: "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."

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: "Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death."

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about."

Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.



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."

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: "Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts."

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.



Jacques Derrida Quotes: "Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?"

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?



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."

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: "If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction."

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.



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."

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: "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."

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: "I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."

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: "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."

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: "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."

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: "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."

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 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."

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.