Jacques Derrida Quotes
Books by Jacques Derrida
Best 7 Quotes by Jacques Derrida
“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
“If things were simple, word would have gotten around.”
“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
“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 the question of ghosts.”
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
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“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?”
