Elias Canetti
10 quotations
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.