Derrida, Jacques

"Singularity withdraws from all universal categories."

"The document is always a ghost of itself."

"Justice is what remains when all calculation ceases."

"We are made responsible by what we did not choose."

"The specter returns to demand accounting."

"Writing is the death of presence and the birth of meaning."

"The friend is whom we cannot know completely."

"Forgiveness breaks the cycle but cannot erase."

"The future calls us toward what we cannot secure."

"Beauty is what opens us to the unmasterable."

"The law emerges from violence and never escapes it."

"We inherit more than we can possibly acknowledge."

"The question preserves what answers attempt to foreclose."

"Solitude is where we encounter the other within ourselves."

"The archive is our quarrel with finitude."

"The other is absolutely other, and this alterity can never be fully comprehended or reduced to the same."

"Writing is the arch-trace of all other traces."

"We are always already caught in the play of signs and signification."

"Deconstruction is not destruction; it is a careful reading of the structures of meaning."

"The archive is not innocent; it shapes what can be remembered and forgotten."

"Justice cannot be calculated or reduced to a rule; it remains to come."

"Hospitality is unconditional, or it is not hospitality at all."

"The future is open precisely because it cannot be predicted or controlled."

"Language is a structure that precedes and constitutes individual subjects."

"Forgiveness exists only when it is impossible, when the offense is unforgivable."

"We inherit what we do not choose, yet we are responsible for it."

"Différance marks the impossible presence of presence itself."

"The specter haunts the present with what it cannot fully possess or dismiss."

"To read is to accept the otherness of the text, not to master it."

"Democracy is always to come; it is never fully realized in the present."