Elias Canetti Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Elias Canetti

  Writing, Night, Literature

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)". Book by M.P. Singh, p. 302, January 1, 2005.

• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

  Elias Canetti

  Eye, People, Decision

• Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

  Elias Canetti

  Should Have, Justice, Literature

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

• 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.

  Elias Canetti

  Thinking, Two, Differences

• It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

  Elias Canetti

  Creativity, Technology, What Matters

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

  Elias Canetti

  Hate, Self, People

• 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.

  Elias Canetti

  Children, Parenting, Practice

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

  Elias Canetti

  Literature, Might, Goodness

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

  Elias Canetti

  Inspirational, Use, Literature

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

  Elias Canetti

  Lying, Deceit, Literature

• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Lice, Add

• 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.

  Elias Canetti

  Philosophical, Hands, Order

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