These things are difficult, I admit; their formulation can be
disconcerting. But would there be so many problems and
misunderstandings without this complexity and without these paradoxes?
One shouldn't complicate things for the pleasure of complicating, but
one should also never simplify or pretend to be sure of such
simplicity where there is none.
If things were simple, word would have gotten around...
There you have one of my mottos, one quite appropriate for what I take
to be the spirit of the type of "enlightenment" granted our time.
Those who wish to simplify at all costs and who raise a hue and cry
about obscurity because they do not recognize the unclarity of their
good old Aufklärung are in my eyes dangerous dogmatists and tedious
obscurantists. No less dangerous (for instance, in politics) are those
who wish to purify at all costs.
-- Jacques Derrida. Limited Inc. [afterword] p.119
[1977, 1988] translated by Samuel Weber.