All Octavio Paz Quotes
- Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster… Absolute
- Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one… Adventure
- Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy. Alone
- Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact… Expression
- A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry. Beauty
- Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence:… All
- Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which… Awake
- Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… Debased
- We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. Bit
- The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of… Adaptation
- Poet: gardener of epitaphs. Design
- What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… Attraction
- Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. Beggar
- Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and… All
- What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. Attraction
- To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see. Battle
- Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… Beaten
- Whatever is not stone is light Inspirational
- The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature. Body
- We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… Abstract
- If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement. Acknowledgement
- It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some… Action
- We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her… Air
- A civilization that denies death ends by denying life. Civilization
- What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. Age