Best Elias Canetti Quotes
- It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the… Become Free
- Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true Discovers
- Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf All
- There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight Beginning
- People's fates are simplified by their names Fate
- When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about Contain
- People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. Accusation
- It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. Becomes
- Learning is the art of ignoring. Art
- 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… Arouse
- Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Decision
- History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. Come Otherwise
- The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. All
- Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. Day
- Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. Boring
- You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind. Closer
- I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole. Inspirational
- Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. All
- 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… Difference
- It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. All
- Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. Frequently
- Beauty always has something remote. Beauty
- The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. Adjusting
- I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax! Energy
- One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation. Fear