Jacques Derrida Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Language, Traditional

• As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

  Jacques Derrida

  Language, Scene, Generalities

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

• No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

  Jacques Derrida

  Language, Speak, Mathematician

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.115, Stanford University Press

• The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

  Jacques Derrida

  Political Language, Media, Doe

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

• I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

  Jacques Derrida

  Language, Speak, My Own

• In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

  Jacques Derrida

  Dream, Philosophy, Writing

• I love language as I love life itself!

  Jacques Derrida

  Love Life, Language, I Love Life

• In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

  Jacques Derrida

  Differences, Inventory, Systematic

• I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Eye, Self

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