More Quotes by Octavio Paz
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
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.
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.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
