Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Being itself is not being."Jacques Derrida
"Logocentrism must be challenged."Jacques Derrida
"The supplement is always essential."Jacques Derrida
"Margins are where meaning is made."Jacques Derrida
"The unconscious structures everything."Jacques Derrida
"Binary oppositions are unstable."Jacques Derrida
"Violence is originary."Jacques Derrida
"The event is always singular."Jacques Derrida
"The possible is always constrained."Jacques Derrida
"Names never name fully."Jacques Derrida
"The animal is a subject, not an object."Jacques Derrida
"Language is never transparent."Jacques Derrida
"The secret is an essential structure."Jacques Derrida
"Being is never present to itself."Jacques Derrida
"The gift cannot be given."Jacques Derrida
"Deconstruction occurs naturally."Jacques Derrida
"The trace withdraws into itself."Jacques Derrida
"Being is fundamentally anarchic."Jacques Derrida
"The border is never secure."Jacques Derrida
"The proper name is impossible."Jacques Derrida
"The event erupts from the calculable."Jacques Derrida
"Being withdraws in its revelation."Jacques Derrida
"One cannot escape language."Jacques Derrida
"Desire is the structure of being."Jacques Derrida
"The image is always a spectrality."Jacques Derrida
"Being is always already under erasure."Jacques Derrida
"Language is the house of being."Jacques Derrida
"We don't have a being that lasts; we are a process, a becoming."Gilles Deleuze
"Difference is not diversity. Diversity is simply a fact, while difference is a concept."Gilles Deleuze
"Philosophy begins with surprise."Gilles Deleuze