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
Related Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis o... D.A. CARSON The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when yo... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide ELIZABETH KAY Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ... DIANE HAMMOND In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nin... ALBERT HOURANI The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ... DONALD DAVIDSON ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t... DON DELILLO The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. GERTRUDE STEIN But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS We tend to look only on one side of God’s blessing, without noticing the other side of the coin SUNDAY ADELAJA In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death... DREW GILPIN FAUST Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result... JOHN BERGER The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was... TOM BROKAW There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, L... RICHARD ROGERS The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result... JOHN BERGER The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result... JOHN BERGER But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure... JOHN D. BARROW What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world MARYANNE RADMACHER- HERSHEY I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. MARY ANNE RADMACHER Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natur... PATRICIA LOVE Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's... DON DELILLO Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's t... DON DELILLO They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other ti... JEN CAMPBELL The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on a... ALBERT EINSTEIN When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid.... ~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering. DEEPAK CHOPRA The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ... ERIC HOFFER What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide i... MAGDI YACOUB To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the... JERRY SALTZ But on the other side, you have Morgan Stanley, leaders in the brokerage world, putting up huge numb... CHIP HANLON Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. BENITO MUSSOLINI The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change rad... ALAIN ASPECT In the twentieth century, Kansas City produced two uniquely American geniuses who would both forever... TANNER COLBY Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story. LINDA COLLISON There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on one side is the logic of the market, where we like... DAVID GRAEBER In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Животът ми е пълен провал, но никой не го забелязва , за�... FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'first... DEE DEE MYERS Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretche... EMMA LAZARUS ...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine... WILLIAM H. GASS The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's w... ALLEN GINSBERG Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West... JOHN LAHR ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback) "I know t... AMAZON REVIEWER Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It's not the end of the world to lose. ANDY MURRAY The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together... VERA NAZARIAN There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other s... BILL VIOLA She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her SUSAN ENGBERG Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that ... RUDOLF STEINER In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ... DEAN CAVANAGH We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a ... ALAN COOPER Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. T.S. ELIOT Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistor... ALAN J. HEEGER From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world. ELIZABETH COLEMAN The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a ninetee... W. E. B. DU BOIS You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever... SUE MONK KIDD A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on develop... AULIQ-ICE A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on develop... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and ... C. WRIGHT MILLS The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisi... SHAMS TABRIZI Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD We are all here in China that represents quite a lot of opportunities, not only on the business side... JERRY YANG But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always... ALEX SHEARER I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other team... DEREK JETER
More Octavio Paz
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that ... OCTAVIO PAZ To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination o... OCTAVIO PAZ We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. OCTAVIO PAZ The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. OCTAVIO PAZ The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: his... OCTAVIO PAZ Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high pl... OCTAVIO PAZ The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no lon... OCTAVIO PAZ Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about j... OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environmen... OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming... OCTAVIO PAZ The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortu... OCTAVIO PAZ Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, t... OCTAVIO PAZ To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. OCTAVIO PAZ Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history. OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. OCTAVIO PAZ To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. OCTAVIO PAZ The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something... OCTAVIO PAZ Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us... OCTAVIO PAZ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are ... OCTAVIO PAZ Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. OCTAVIO PAZ Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and... OCTAVIO PAZ Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being bec... OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art i... OCTAVIO PAZ Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi... OCTAVIO PAZ Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe... OCTAVIO PAZ If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of ... OCTAVIO PAZ What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life ... OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technolog... OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone... OCTAVIO PAZ Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes th... OCTAVIO PAZ All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable an... OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art... OCTAVIO PAZ The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twiste... OCTAVIO PAZ Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. OCTAVIO PAZ Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nin... OCTAVIO PAZ In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work... OCTAVIO PAZ When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the ... OCTAVIO PAZ For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative ... OCTAVIO PAZ Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the dist... OCTAVIO PAZ If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disrega... OCTAVIO PAZ As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the... OCTAVIO PAZ Deserve your dream. OCTAVIO PAZ Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - tha... OCTAVIO PAZ In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins argu... OCTAVIO PAZ Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of d... OCTAVIO PAZ Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is... OCTAVIO PAZ Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his... OCTAVIO PAZ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poe... OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone... OCTAVIO PAZ Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us et... OCTAVIO PAZ What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life i... OCTAVIO PAZ To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to ... OCTAVIO PAZ The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging cla... OCTAVIO PAZ The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American e... OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. ... OCTAVIO PAZ Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is s... OCTAVIO PAZ A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who imp... OCTAVIO PAZ Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things. OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere... OCTAVIO PAZ Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi... OCTAVIO PAZ ...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and h... OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and mora... OCTAVIO PAZ I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th... OCTAVIO PAZ Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential i... OCTAVIO PAZ A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence. OCTAVIO PAZ An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a cens... OCTAVIO PAZ Merece lo que sueñas. OCTAVIO PAZ Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reprod... OCTAVIO PAZ When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. OCTAVIO PAZ Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. OCTAVIO PAZ In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen... OCTAVIO PAZ An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work ... OCTAVIO PAZ la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa... OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival. OCTAVIO PAZ I have to respect what they say, but I think I'll be in the game before June. It depends on how I do... OCTAVIO DOTEL Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I ... PAZ VEGA I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English. PAZ VEGA I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's mar... PAZ VEGA My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living wit... PAZ VEGA People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it... PAZ VEGA We have been making steady progress in moving this institute forward. HAROLD PAZ There are individuals and families desperate for new discoveries and the possibility of treatments a... HAROLD PAZ [People from] the U.S. miss out in learning about this. There are many things in common in all citie... FRANCISCO PAZ Residents in the area said they heard an explosion. Air rescue teams are traveling to the area right... FRANCISCO PAZ The plane went out of control and crashed. There are no survivors. FRANCISCO PAZ Residents in the area said they heard an explosion. FRANCISCO PAZ Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident. FRANCISCO PAZ They asked what kind of problems they were having, and the pilots indicated that it was a technical ... FRANCISCO PAZ This process took place mainly after September 11 and it became the main field of activity at least ... REUVEN PAZ I love biker chicks! PAZ DE LA HUERTA I love Frida Kahlo. PAZ DE LA HUERTA I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to th... PAZ DE LA HUERTA I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child. PAZ DE LA HUERTA If I collect anything, it's lingerie. PAZ DE LA HUERTA Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody commen... PAZ DE LA HUERTA I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close... PAZ DE LA HUERTA