All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias Canetti

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

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Elias Canetti

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias Canetti

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti

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