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Jacques Derrida

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Total quotes: 4

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Jacques Derrida

Birthname

Birthday: July 15, 1930

Birthplace: El Biar, French Algeria

Death: October 9, 2004

Educated At: University Of Paris, École Normale Supérieure, Harvard University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: France

Occupations: University Teacher, Literary Critic, Philosopher, Writer

Total quotes: 4

“It's perhaps here that we find the secret of secrecy. A secret is not a matter of knowing and a secret is for no one. A secret doesn't belong, it can never be said to be at home or in its place. ”

— Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death

Tagged: Secrets, Secret Secrets, The Secret of Secrecy

“The opposition between sacred and secular is naive. Contrary to what we think we know, we have never entered into a secular era. The very idea of the secular is religious through and through — Christian really.”

— Jacques Derrida, Paper Machine

Tagged: Alive and God, Religion, Secularism, Secular Theology, Secularized Theology

“From where, from whom, this mourning, or these tears of joy — I do not know; one must believe.”

— Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind

Tagged: Alien, Mourning

“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”

— Jacques Derrida, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida

Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, Passion, Against Transparency, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

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