“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.” KnowsShouldPracticeCasesKnow HowPersonalityCriticsPhilosopherOrganizeCultModeratesObsessive Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994 Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994
“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.” MenPlayNamesPoetEmptyMetaphorPhilosopherManipulateMultiplicityDerrida Book:Marges de la Philosophie Source: Marges de la Philosophie
“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.” MeanHas BeensDiesAcceptingOughtAbsolutesPhilosophicalOneselfPhilosopherRedemptionAcknowledgeOutcomesMortalityResurrectionPlatoPositive Outcome Author:Jacques Derrida
“Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?” EasierScientistPhilosopherExpectedInaccessible Author:Jacques Derrida
