A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.
Elias CanettiThe self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
Elias CanettiThere can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Elias CanettiThere 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 CanettiThere is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight
Elias CanettiJustice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.
Elias Canetti