Jacques Derrida Quotes


Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent. - Jacques Derrida


Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? - Jacques Derrida


Who ever said that one was born just once? - Jacques Derrida


Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. - Jacques Derrida


We are all mediators, translators. - Jacques Derrida


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


These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. - Jacques Derrida


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


The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. - 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


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