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22 Insightful Quotes By Jacques Derrida For The Sage
Jacques Derrida was an eminent French philosopher well-known for developing ‘deconstruction’, a form of semiotic analysis. Derrida developed this in context to phenomenology and he discussed his thoughts, views and opinions on the same in numerous texts. He is considered as one of the utmost figures associated with postmodern and post-structuralism philosophy. He expressed his thoughts and viewpoints on the subject through his writings and books which include more than 40 books and numerous public presentations and essays. His works have significantly influenced the study of various subjects including humanities, religious studies, law, anthropology, feminism, political theory, applied linguistic, ethics, music, art, architecture, epistemology, gay and lesbian studies. Zoom through the quotable quotes and sayings by Jacques Derrida which have been excerpted from the vast sea of his works. Presenting popular, inspiring, motivational and enlightening quotations and thoughts by Jacques Derrida.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
Jacques Derrida
I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.
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
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
Jacques Derrida
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
Jacques Derrida
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.
Jacques Derrida
Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.
The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.
