Memorable Quotes and quotations from Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida French (Algerian-born) philosopher (1930 - 2004)


Jacques Derrida - Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
- But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead?a dead parent, for example?can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida -
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.