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
fear prejudice transformation
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
should-have justice literature
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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.
lasts speak sentences
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
advice
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
art learning
Learning is the art of ignoring.
men sight doubt
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight
boredom people adjusting
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
men
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
thinking two differences
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
dying earth ugly
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.
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.