Jacques Derrida

"Justice withdraws from every formalization and institutionalization."

"Language is the house we inhabit even as it imprisons us."

"The promise structures all meaning, even when impossible to keep."

"To be human is to live in the aporia of undecidability."

"The trace marks the absence that makes presence possible."

"Forgiveness requires that we forgive the unforgivable in ourselves."

"The other's alterity remains absolute and irreducible."

"Writing opens a space where the author's intentions disappear."

"The law is always already deconstructed by its own application."

"To love the other is to love what we cannot comprehend."

"The future is what we cannot predict, only await."

"Language is the medium through which we are constituted."

"Responsibility emerges when calculation and rules fail us."

"The political is what resists the reduction to the economic."

"To read carefully is to honor the alterity of the text."

"History is made by those who are excluded from it."

"The event is what breaks the chain of causality and expectation."

"Justice is always to come, perpetually deferred."

"The future is not something to be predicted, but to be invented."

"Writing is the condition for philosophy."

"The other is always calling us toward responsibility."

"Deconstruction is not destruction, but an analysis of structures."

"We are always already within the text."

"Forgiveness must be unconditional or it is not forgiveness."

"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctuary of the soul."

"Hospitality begins where we welcome the stranger without conditions."

"Time is a construct we use to defer meaning."

"Language always exceeds our intentions."

"The archive always leaves traces of what it excludes."

"Justice cannot be calculated or programmed."