It is those who devote themselves to kil... by Elias Canetti | We Heart Quotes

Writer Nobel Prize essayist Psychology sociologist

It is those who devote themselves to killing who have power.

- Elias Canetti

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God

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

- Elias Canetti

People's fates are simplified by their names.

- Elias Canetti

Words People

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

- Elias Canetti

Today Death

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

Practice Children

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

- Elias Canetti

Thoughts

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

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