I speak only one language, and it is not my own. Jacques Derrida More Quotes by Jacques Derrida More Quotes From 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 returncircleschance No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing. Jacques Derrida secretwritingfacts I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. Jacques Derrida fightingbelievebook I rightly pass for an atheist. Jacques Derrida atheist 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 echoesnamesbelieve The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. Jacques Derrida political-languagemediadoe I love language as I love life itself! Jacques Derrida i-love-lifelove-lifelanguage 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 responsibilitynumbersphilosophy Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about. Jacques Derrida circumcision An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me. Jacques Derrida portraitsdrawingself 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 argumentstageroles 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 eccentricinsecuritystrange Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. Jacques Derrida pluscinemaghost 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 anxietyteachingschool 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 discoursepoeticmethodology There is nothing outside of the text. Jacques Derrida 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 dreamwritingphilosophy 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 kindreadingyoung Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. Jacques Derrida institutionsterritorycertain 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 philosopherpersonalitypractice
