Jacques Derrida Quotes

But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and your...

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

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a ...

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

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, b...

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so ...

I remain ‘torn’ (between a ‘hyberbolic’ ethical vision of forgiveness, pure forgiveness, and the rea...

These two poles, the unconditional and the conditional, are absolutely heterogeneous, and must remai...

It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of ter...

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), ...

For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For ...

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

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its com...

Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it...

Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which alread...

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but...

In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come]. T...

Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us beli...

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