Octavio Paz Quotes

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

I dream, therefore I exist.

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

The problem is we think we exist.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

Life is but thought.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

I think, therefore I am.

I am, therefore I'll think.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.