24 Quotations by Elias Canetti
- 1. A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. Th ...
- 2. Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The c ...
- 3. All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
- 4. As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
- 5. Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk up ...
- 6. He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
- 7. It doesn't matter how new an idea is; what matters is how new it becomes.
- 8. Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
- 9. One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
- 10. One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
- 11. One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
- 12. Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
- 13. Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
- 14. Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
- 15. The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpec ...
- 16. The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. O ...
- 17. The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it ...
- 18. The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in ...
- 19. The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to ...
- 20. There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
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