Jacques Derrida Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.”

“Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?”

“Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.”

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

“I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.”

“Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.”

“In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.”

“Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.”

“If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.”

“I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.”