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
acceptance self want
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.
order hands philosopher
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.
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.
believe goal condescension-and
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days
scratches statistics
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
death guilty obsessed
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
god long impossible
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
names magic statistics
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
people use ifs
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
scandal machines hostage
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
want smashing whole
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
children parenting practice
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
fall done century
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
mankind draws
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.