Best Octavio Paz Quotations
- Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Change
- Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear… Clear
- By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death Civilization
- Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life Becomes
- The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us Civilization