Elias Canetti

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dying #earth #every #hear #i

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

— Elias Canetti

#contain #down #ever #every #heard

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dead #god #god is dead #him #impossible

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

#because #dead #drop #lice #like

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

— Elias Canetti

#capable #could #good #know #might

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

#disaster #even #every #eyes #into

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

— Elias Canetti

#forgotten #help #scream #things

Most religions do not make men better, only warier. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#make #men #most #only #religions

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#craving #endorsement #life #should

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

— Elias Canetti

#recognize #should #use