15 Quotations by Octavio Paz
- 1. Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art ...
- 2. If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of ...
- 3. Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi ...
- 4. Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe ...
- 5. Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being bec ...
- 6. Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us ...
- 7. Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
- 8. Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
- 9. Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technolog ...
- 10. The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are ...
- 11. Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and ...
- 12. We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
- 13. What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
- 14. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
- 15. Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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