The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, c….

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself..

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 ashame….

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 som….

There is nothing outside the text.

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says..

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts..

Who ever said that one was born just once?.

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to H….

All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. ….

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited..

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or rede….

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts..

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is….

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a s….

I speak only one language, and it is not my own..

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, o….

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect..

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge ….

If things were simple, word would have gotten around..