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
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 order return
A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.
beauty
Beauty always has something remote.
eternity
In eternity everything is just beginning.
people use ifs
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
inspirational aphorism wells
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
success space one-day
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
mankind draws
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
understanding misunderstanding
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.
heart law justice
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.
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.
scandal machines hostage
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
war want firsts
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
life endorsements should
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.