"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing……" — Octavio Paz

"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."

— Octavio Paz

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80 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes…
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood…
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity.…

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce

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