Quotes by Canetti, Elias

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has n >>

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't >>

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becom >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about th >>

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all o >>

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they ca >>

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.

Canetti, Elias