Jacques Derrida Quotes & Sayings
27 most famous Jacques Derrida quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a French philosopher who passed away on 8 October, 2004.
“Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.”
“As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.”
“We are all mediators, translators.”
“I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.”
“I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.”
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
“Who ever said that one was born just once?”
“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.”
“I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.”
“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.”
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