Quotes about Jacques Derrida

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for...

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

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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the...

#Jacques Derrida

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

#Jacques Derrida

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules...

#Jacques Derrida

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

#Jacques Derrida

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

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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist...

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Who ever said that one was born just once?

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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes...

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We are all mediators, translators.

#Jacques Derrida

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

#Jacques Derrida