The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.] - Jacques Derrida
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
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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
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…
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. - Jacques Derrida
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. - Jacques Derrida
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything - Jacques Derrida
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything
There is nothing outside the text - Jacques Derrida
There is nothing outside the text
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. - Jacques Derrida
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. - Jacques Derrida
If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
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