Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.

Jacques Derrida's Popular Quotes

There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]

- Jacques Derrida

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

- Jacques Derrida

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is th…

- Jacques Derrida

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

- Jacques Derrida

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

- Jacques Derrida

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

- Jacques Derrida

There is nothing outside the text

- Jacques Derrida

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

- Jacques Derrida

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

- Jacques Derrida