You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. Elias Canetti More Quotes by Elias Canetti More Quotes From Elias Canetti I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax! Elias Canetti relax energy trying Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. Elias Canetti want war peace The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. Elias Canetti self-knowledge self want A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom. Elias Canetti children People's fates are simplified by their names. Elias Canetti fate names people Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. Elias Canetti one-day space success People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. Elias Canetti hate self people As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. Elias Canetti goodness literature might Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice. Elias Canetti real men lying Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days Elias Canetti condescension-and goal believe Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true Elias Canetti deceit literature lying Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf Elias Canetti applause deaf I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole. Elias Canetti smashing whole want In eternity everything is just beginning. Elias Canetti eternity Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages Elias Canetti hostage scandal machines A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed. Elias Canetti return order fall There emanates from superlatives a destructive force. Elias Canetti superlatives emanate force 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 lice add men He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch? Elias Canetti scratches statistics In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. Elias Canetti reading would-be book
