Jacques Derrida quotes - page 4

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. (Jacques Derrida)
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. View quote
Jacques Derrida
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. View quote
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

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Photo: Chinmoy Guha, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: July 15, 1930
Died: October 8, 2004
Quotes count: 78
Wikipedia: Jacques Derrida

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