Elias Canetti

People's fates are simplified by their names. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#names #people #simplified #their

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

— Elias Canetti

#invent #know #must #procure #rulers

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#day #insolence #newspaper #occupies #space

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#deaf #else #listens #only #success

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#great #had #known #other #read

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#assured #become #effort #future #gamble

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#appear #disappears #hand #lot #order

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

— Elias Canetti

#doubt #end #his #just #man

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

— Elias Canetti

#being #closely #feel #fun #human

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#old #only #people #same #too