Derrida, Jacques

"Silence is not absence but a form of communication."

"The future is absolutely singular; it cannot be predicted."

"Friendship demands we risk the calculable for the incalculable."

"Technology reveals what nature tried to conceal."

"The spectral is what haunts without being fully present or absent."

"Interpretation knows no final resting place."

"The gift is most itself when it appears most impossible."

"Writing is the supplement that becomes primary."

"The origin defers itself endlessly in supplementarity."

"Justice demands we exceed the rule, not merely follow it."

"Every act of understanding is also a misunderstanding."

"The trace of the absent is more real than presence itself."

"Mourning teaches us what we love only when it is threatened."

"The text resists the author's intentions and exceeds them."

"Deconstruction affirms the singularity of the other."

"The law requires what cannot be required."

"We cannot step outside language to judge language."

"The future is what remains unprogrammable."

"Being human is remaining open to what we cannot master."

"The secret cannot be kept; it is always already betrayed."

"Hospitality without conditions is the possibility of ethics."

"The other's death is what first teaches us mortality."

"Archives preserve what they simultaneously obscure."

"The political decision must pass through undecidability."

"Language fails most when it matters most."

"The name is the trace of an absence it cannot fill."

"To love is to love what resists possession and understanding."

"The image speaks where words fail."

"Time is the spacing that makes all meaning possible."

"The text contains its own critique within itself."