Derrida Quotes

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and '90s - "immunized" in the sense that they made me no longer susceptible to this epidemic cultural virus. I looked into Derrida and found that he rarely seemed to be interested in truth; he was more interested in making a splash.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.