Jacques Derrida

The question of Europe is always already a question of its limits.

The monster is that which announces the future.

The trace is the possibility of the impossible.

The archive is a promise and a threat.

The animal is not a metaphor for man, but a challenge to man.

The decision is always a leap of faith.

The spectral is the very condition of possibility of the present.

The gift is always a debt.

The name is always a call to responsibility.

The secret is that there is no secret.

There is nothing outside of the text.

The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity.

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (or printed), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion.

Deconstruction is, like the unconscious, that part of the structure which cannot be comprehended within the given rules of the game.

The one who says 'I am' lies, in order to make the other say 'you are'.

White mythology—metaphysics has erased itself without leaving a trace.

The sign is always a sign of a sign.

To pretend, to challenge, to make believe, to simulate, to speak the truth by lying—these are the resources of the deconstruction.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Deconstruction is justice.