Quotes by Canetti, Elias

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of >>

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superf >>

Quotations about Unknown

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the know >>

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, >>

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, >>

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Canetti, Elias