Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. Octavio Paz deeplyforeseehistorical Change image and share on social
Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant. Octavio Paz accomplicealternatelyaware share on social
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims. Octavio Paz aimattitudedefine Change image and share on social
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. Octavio Paz abstractamericancitizen share on social
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence. Octavio Paz confrontincludejuana share on social
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz contrarydeprivationexpression share on social
We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide. Octavio Paz centurycolumbiancultural Change image and share on social
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? Octavio Paz attributefeelingguide Change image and share on social
The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented. Octavio Paz americacontinentcreate Change image and share on social
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention. Octavio Paz acceptattitudebegin Change image and share on social
