"Language lies outside of society because it is……" — Octavio Paz
"Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops."
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80 Quotes by Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz has 80 quotes on this site.
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
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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…
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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…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
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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…
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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.…
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More Develops Quotes
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
— Gary Busey
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she…
— Marge Piercy
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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man,…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers…
— Archibald Rutledge
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So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state…
— George Harrison
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Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is…
— Pope John Paul II
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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