Elias Canetti Quotes - Interesting, inspiring, exemplary, poignant thoughts of Nobel Prize winning modern German novelist, playwright, memoirist and realist writer

Elias Canetti was born in 1905 in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic Jewish family who became a famous writer of the German language. Canetti moved to England after the Anschluss in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution. He became a British citizen in 1952. He is known as a modern novelist, playwright, memoirist and realist writer. Elias Canetti received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 for writings that contained a broad outlook, richness of ideas and artistic power. He is known for his realistic book Crowds and Power, among other works.

Elias Canetti is primarily known for his famous trilogy of autobiographical memoirs of his childhood and pre-Anschluss Vienna, Die gerätte Junge (The Tongue Set Free), Die Fackel im Ohr (The Torch in My Ear) and Das Augenspiel (The Game of the Eyes). Elias Canetti was very successful in attracting a lot of readers, reviewers, critics etc. for his modernist novel Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung) and for Crowds and Power which is a psychological study of crowd behaviour as it manifests in human activities ranging from mob violence to religious gatherings.

Here are some interesting, inspiring, exemplary, poignant thoughts of Elias Canetti -

Now I don't even hate myself.

Whenever you look at an animal closely, you feel as if a human sitting inside is mocking you.

There is no ugly language. Today I listen to every language as if it were the only language and when I hear of a language that is dying, I am overwhelmed as if the earth is dying.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Let it go.

Every decision is liberating even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise why do so many people walk straight and wide-open toward their misfortune?

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

His head is made up of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write your life there must be something on every page that no one has ever heard of.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

The self-explorer, whether he wants it or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to look at himself, but suddenly, provided he is honest, everything else appears, and it is as rich as he was and as rich as the last crown.

In eternity everything is just beginning.

Nothing frightens man more than the touch of the unknown.

It is important to say all great thoughts again without knowing that they have already been said.

Speak as if it were the last sentence that allows you.

There is something infinite in the process of writing. Even if it is interrupted every night it is a single notation.

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak, he was certainly planning it and if he was not really planning it, he was thinking about it and if he was not thinking about it, he must have thought about it.

I cannot be modest, so many things are burning inside me, old solutions are falling apart, nothing has been done yet with new solutions. So I start everywhere at once, as if I had a century before me.

Rulers who want to wage war know very well that they must first acquire or invent a victim.

In five minutes the earth will become a desert, and you will stick to books.

There is no doubt about it, the study of man is just beginning, at the same time its end is in sight.

Of all the languages ​​I know, the English word I attracts the most attention.

It does not matter how new an idea is, what matters is how new it becomes.

I want to keep crushing myself until I am finished.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

One lives in the naive belief that there will be more room for the hereafter than for the whole past.

Most religions do not make people better, only cautious.

You get closer to the truth by separating yourself from mankind.

Each creature raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles at the sun, and declares life to be good.

Shared murder with several others, which is not only safe and permitted but actually recommended, is irresistible to most men.

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