Elias Canetti Quotes & Quotations

Elias Canetti Quotes

» 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.

» 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.

» Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

» One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

» Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

» 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.

» One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

» 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.

» 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.

» The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

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