Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti
Elias Canettiwas a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 July 1905
CountrySwitzerland
Elias Canetti quotes about
hate self people
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
might goodness capability
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
people use ifs
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
inspirational aphorism wells
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
war want firsts
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
fear prejudice transformation
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
men want able
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.
advice
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
art learning
Learning is the art of ignoring.
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
occupies space success
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
add dead drop limb man oppose time
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.
fun animal sitting
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
inspirational dream helping
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.