Quotes by : Jacques Derrida

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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