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Octavio Paz has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I realize that the nation is facing problems presently that it hasn't faced in a long, long time. But you have a…
— Jimmy Swaggart
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You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?
— Trey Gowdy
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Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which…
— Unknown Author
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making…
— David Hume
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One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
— Eugene Wigner
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There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary,…
— Bridget of Sweden
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or…
— Robert Boyle
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