Elias Canetti Quotes

Austria, Author
July 25, 1905 – August, 14, 1994.

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to the continent. They settled in Vienna.

Also known as Novelist

Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens.

Elias Canetti
One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.

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- People

Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.

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A mind, lean in its own language. In others, it gets fat.

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- Mind
Everything you rejected and pushed aside-take it up again.

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- Up
He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!

Elias Canetti
You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.

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- Important
- Why
- May
Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.

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- Past
- Knowledge
- Stop

I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.

Elias Canetti
- Death
Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.

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- Die
His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.

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- Great