More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Every moment is nothing without end.
To love is to undress our names.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
