Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction
Sayings by Jacques Derrida
To write is to know that one will not be read.
There is no metalanguage.
The text is an abyss.
I am not a philosopher.
Justice, in itself, is not deconstructible.
The name of man is perhaps the name of the last god.
The 'self' is not a substance or a subject; it is an effect of differential relations.
The postcard is a text that is always already sent.
What is proper to language is to be improper.
The concept of man is a metaphysical concept.
There are only contexts without any center of absolute anchorage.
The trace is not a positive presence but the mark of an absence.
The limit is not an edge, but a folding.
The question of the animal is perhaps the most urgent question.
We are always already haunted.
The archive is not simply a place of storage, but a place of commencement.
There is no outside of the archive.
The monster is a figure of the future.
The proper name is always already improper.
Hospitality is the impossible.