Quotes about Deconstruction

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Civilisation once looked to art as the means of passing wisdom from one generation to the next. Writing itself was invented in part to convey the sacred: permanent things deserved a permanent place, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs. But a modern civilisation that no longer believes in permanent things, one that accepts no certain narrative of meaning, resorts to deconstruction, not construction.

deconstructing a person is easier than constructing one.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

In each instance Jesus advocates grace beyond retribution and expectation. He does not advocate passivity but active generosity that deconstructs the system because of the presence of the kingdom. Surrendering one's rights for the good of the other manifests the Jesus Creed and its variant, the Golden Rule

Without some deconstruction, everything becomes idolatrous. The prophets were religious deconstructionists.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

It is often when the ego is most deconstructed that we can hear things anew and begin some honest reconstruction, even if it is only half heard and halfhearted.