French - Philosopher | July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004
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.
Jacques Derrida
BelieveThinkDesirePureSign
We are all mediators, translators.
AngryLanguageSomeoneUnderstand
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.
GreatResponsibilityPhilosophyYou
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
BornSaidJustWhoOnceEver
Who ever said that one was born just once?
RulesDiscourseSystemThingsEven
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.
TimeSchoolSicknessBehaviorEnough
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.
MyselfPoliticalYouHeritageAlways
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.
LanguageLiteraturePhilosophyDream
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.
PretendOnlyActuallyThing
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
GreatReadyArgumentStageTake
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
ThinkEscapePossibleEverything
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
TodaySchoolAnxietyNeverStomach
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