Jacques Derrida

"Violence is the origin of culture."

"The text always means more than it says."

"Being itself is a kind of writing."

"The undecidable is not indifference but the most serious responsibility."

"We are always in mourning for what we have lost."

"The image is never a simple representation."

"Knowledge is not accumulation but transformation."

"The other's death is absolutely singular."

"Language emerges from difference, not from presence."

"The concept carries within it the trace of the unconceptual."

"Forgetting is not a failure of memory but its necessary condition."

"The event can never be fully integrated into knowledge."

"We are constituted by our debts."

"The law must continually justify itself."

"Being is always in question."

"The secret cannot be shared without ceasing to be a secret."

"Presence is always deferred."

"The archive fever is the desire to return to the origin."

"We must think without concepts."

"The animal looks at us and we are responsible."

"Writing liberates us from the tyranny of the voice."

"The boundary between inside and outside is undecidable."

"Love is impossible and necessary."

"The future anterior structures our present."

"Reading against the grain is the only authentic reading."

"The supplement is never merely supplementary."

"We are always already addressed by the other."

"Politics is the impossibility of identity."

"The trace exceeds the sign."

"We cannot not inherit."