More Quotes by Octavio Paz
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange
voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body,
another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches,
sings the unknown. It calls to me.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
Every moment is nothing without end.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
