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