Elias Canetti Quotes
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It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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People's fates are simplified by their names.
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It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
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