“By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death” DifferentCultureDifferencesProgressCivilizationFavorsEliminatingSuppressing Author:Octavio Paz
“Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.” ThinkingWayBelievePersonsDifferentSelfTruthTurnsHuman NatureAbsolutesRegardFellowsThreatMonstersWay Of ThinkingDegradeAbsolute Truth Author:Octavio Paz
“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.” IfsDifferentTodayLostSpeakLanguageSpaceTomorrowUniversalWestTongueEastYesterdayFormerConfusedHere And NowDifferent TimesCoherenceUniversal LanguageEast And WestYesterday And Tomorrow Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“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” WorldDifferentLife IsCultureDifferencesViewsProgressPossibilityCivilizationIdealsDisappearAttractionTechniqueFavorsCultDiminishEliminatingUniformityImplicitSuppressingRepulsionAttraction And Repulsion Author:Octavio Paz
“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.” ThinkingMenDoeDifferentSpeakConversation Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
