Primo Quotes

Elias Canetti Image

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (/k??n?ti, k??-/; Bulgarian: ????? ??????; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

Read more about this author on here

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

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

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

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in ...

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun ...

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people ...

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

Beauty always has something remote.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpec ...

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns t ...

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. O ...

Das Nicht-Wissen darf am Wissen nicht verarmen.