Octavio Paz Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

  Octavio Paz

  House, Future Happiness, Prison

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.283, Grove Press

• Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

  Octavio Paz

  Ideas, Evil, Drug

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

• By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

  Octavio Paz

  Two, Knowing, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.96, Arcade Publishing

• The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce.

  Octavio Paz

  Commerce, E Commerce, Values

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