Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs Quotes

“five traits: decision, desire, will, closure, and security.”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“Western philosophy exhibits schemas such as the substance-attributes relation, where substance is the present being which the attributes modify;”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“Metaphysics is a closed system;”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“to what Derrida, following Husserl, calls “the relation to the object” [84]),”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“Limiting the potencies of repetition to presence”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“this desire,”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“presence and self-presence (89).”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“we seem to be present, we desire the same,”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“we seem to be present to ourselves,”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“we seem to know who we are,”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“it is based on the foundation, as in Descartes, of the “I am,” the foundation of subjectivity and consciousness”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“how to justify . . . the decision which subordinates a reflection on the sign to a logic?”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“as if perception and thought were independent of the sign,”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“Derrida is especially interested in the schema of derivation (44).”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“Husserl’s philosophy belongs to “the philosophy” (44), it belongs to what Derrida calls “the metaphysics of presence” (22). The phrase “the metaphysics of presence” has been the locus of much controversy insofar as it seems to homogenize the history of Western philosophy.”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology

“The means are a technology of the sign, the “technical mastery” of the sign (65).”
― Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology