Octavio Paz Quotes on Mind
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat and one of the foremost Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Octavio Paz on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Octavio Paz:
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”
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“Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.”
Alternating Current(1967) | André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning -
“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 Labyrinth of Solitude(1950) | Ch. 9: "The Dialectic of Solitude", p. 212 -
“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms — all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet…. The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.”
The Monkey Grammarian(1974) | Ch. 1