One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. 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 return circles chance No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing. Jacques Derrida secret writing facts I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. Jacques Derrida fighting believe book 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 echoes names believe 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-language media doe I love language as I love life itself! Jacques Derrida i-love-life love-life language 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 responsibility numbers philosophy 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 portraits drawing self 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 argument stage roles 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 eccentric insecurity strange Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. Jacques Derrida plus cinema ghost 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 anxiety teaching school 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 discourse poetic methodology 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 dream writing philosophy 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 kind reading young Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. Jacques Derrida institutions territory certain 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 philosopher personality practice
