Elias CanettiThinkers

The Aphorism is a genre whose greatest practitioners all read as if they all had known each other very well.

The Aphorism is an art which, at its height, reads as if aphorists had all known each other very well.

Argument is the hereditary misfortune of thought.

An Atrocity is never the lesson we think it is — No massacre protects against the next one.

Beauty always has something remote.

Clothing is, for women, alike all over the world — it is worn to be annoying to other women.

Culture is concocted from the vanities of its promoters. It is a dangerous love potion, distracting us from death.

The Dream is where all the things one has forgotten scream for help.

Earth is a globe carelessly hurled into the Universe to annoy the Heavens.

Killing is the lowest form of survival.

Music is the measure of mankind.