Canetti

Famous quotes containing the word canetti:

“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.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

“He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

“Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)