Elias Canetti Quotes - Page 2

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• In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

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  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

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  English Words, Language, Concentration

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• There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

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  Men, Sight, Doubt

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• Beauty always has something remote.

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  Beauty

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• History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

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  History, Sides, Happened

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• ...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

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  Home, Eye, Office

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

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  Decision, Disaster, Ifs

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• 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 resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.

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  Real, Lying, Men

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• You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

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  Mankind, Draws

  Elias Canetti (1982). “Auto Da Fé”, New York : Continuum

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• Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

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  People, Use, Ifs

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• People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

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  Hate, Self, People

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• The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

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  Inspirational, Aphorism, Wells

  The Human Province "1943" (1978) (translation by Joachim Neugroschel)

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• 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.

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  Men, Want, Able

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• 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.

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  Children, Parenting, Practice

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• As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

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  Literature, Might, Goodness

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• You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

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  Names, Magic, Statistics

  Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day

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• The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

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  Self, Want, Self Knowledge

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• Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

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  Men, Religion

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• Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

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  Fear, Pessimism, Boring

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• The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

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  Mankind, Consolation, Solemn

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• There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

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  Atheist, Grief, Fate

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• Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

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  Heart, Law, Justice

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Two, Differences

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• 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.

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  Philosophical, Hands, Order

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• A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

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  Fall, Order, Return

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