Jacques Derrida

Philosophy France 1930 – 2004 99 quotes

Developed deconstruction to challenge binary oppositions in texts and thought.

Quotes by Jacques Derrida

The other is the secret.

The Gift of Death 1995

Justice is the experience of the impossible.

Force of Law 1990

I am always elsewhere.

Limited Inc 1988

The event of the other is irreducible.

Ethics, Institutions, and the Other 1992

Translation is another name for deconstruction.

Interview 1978

The machine is the messiah.

Faith and Knowledge 1995

Friendship is the anticipation of the other.

Politics of Friendship 1994

The university is a site of undecidability.

Speech at University of Sussex 1983

Art is the impossible task of mourning.

The Truth in Painting 1978

The parergon frames the ergon.

The Truth in Painting 1978

Literature is the right to say everything.

Acts of Literature 1990

I let the other speak.

Interview 1982

The aporia is the condition of possibility.

Aporias 1993

Death is the ultimate deconstruction.

Personal reflection 2002

In the end, I am nothing but a question mark.

Late interview 2004

Philosophy begins in wonder, but ends in silence.

Interview 1997

The trace effaces itself.

Of Grammatology 1967

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Margins of Philosophy 1972

The gift is the impossible.

Given Time 1992