Iโm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
Jacques DerridaThese years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
Jacques DerridaThe only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.
Jacques DerridaA text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.
Jacques Derrida