Jacques Derrida

"We inherit what we do not choose."

"Aporias are not obstacles but the very condition of decision."

"The signature is always singular and unrepeatable."

"Absence is the condition of presence."

"Reading is not passive consumption but active production of meaning."

"The monster is what we call what we cannot assimilate."

"Love without sacrifice is not love."

"Every act of communication is contaminated by context."

"The law is always violent in its institution."

"We are haunted by what we have not yet become."

"Technology is not neutral; it shapes our being."

"The trace marks the absence of a full presence."

"Undecidability is the very structure of decision."

"The gift must not be reciprocated or it ceases to be a gift."

"We are responsible even before we know what we are responsible for."

"The other cannot be reduced to the same."

"Memory is never pure; it is always mixed with forgetting."

"Writing is the violence of letting the other speak."

"The event is what breaks with calculability."

"Truth is not something we possess but something that possesses us."

"The self is always already divided."

"Différance is neither word nor concept."

"We live in the space between what is said and what is meant."

"The impossible is what we must think."

"Authority without interrogation is tyranny."

"The margin is where meaning multiplies."

"We cannot live without substitution and supplementation."

"The spectre of the past haunts the present."

"Hospitality is hostility; welcome contains threat."

"The promise is always made to an other who may not keep it."