Quote by Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is th

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz

Other quotes by Octavio Paz

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

Category:
History
Read Quote

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

Category:
Wisdom
Read Quote

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

Category:
Society
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
alone
category

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
alone

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone. – Ashley Montagu

Category:
alone

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. – Chief Joseph

Category:
alone

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. – Charles Wesley

Category:
alone

Random Quotes

Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure theyre getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. Thats why you have them! – Alison Sweeney

Category:
pet

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. – William Feather

Category:
Business

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. – Voltaire

Category:
Friendship

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. – Frank Knox

Category:
Family