Derrida, Jacques

"Aporia—the impossible path—is where true thinking begins."

"The photograph promises presence while confirming absence."

"We are constituted by what we exclude, not what we include."

"The other's gaze calls me into being before I call myself."

"Undecidability is not indifference; it is where decision becomes necessary."

"The signature must be singular yet iterable to function."

"Messianicity without messianism: hope stripped of content."

"The event is that which cannot be programmed or anticipated."

"Borders are always already contaminated by what they exclude."

"The archive fever consumes us with desire for origins we cannot reach."

"To read is to be responsible to the text's singularity."

"The unconscious speaks in the gaps between what is said and unsaid."

"Hospitality contains its own impossibility within itself."

"The promise presupposes a future that remains radically open."

"Violence inhabits peace; peace is never innocent."

"The other's suffering calls me before any ethical system can."

"Originality is a phantom; all writing is iterative haunting."

"The question is more powerful than any answer."

"Forgetting is as constitutive as remembering."

"The political is where decision interrupts calculation."

"We love what exceeds our categories and understanding."

"The law is founded on a violence that founds rather than executes."

"Autoimmunity: the system working against itself from within."

"The document contains what resists documentation."

"To be is to be marked by alterity, by the other within."

"The image preserves by erasing; photography is memorial erasure."

"Desire opens toward what can never be satisfied."

"The text multiplies meaning rather than reducing it."

"Ethics begins where identity dissolves before the other."

"The institution always betrays its own founding principle."