Philosophy Quote by Elias Canetti — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages”

“Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.”

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

“Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”

“Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.”

“The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.”