Logo
Quote by Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose i

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

Other quotes by Elias Canetti

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Modern, Modernism
Author
Elias Canetti
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Names
category

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. – Mary Daly

Category:
Names

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Names

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Names

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

Category:
Names

Random Quotes

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. – E. W. Howe

Category:
alone

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. – Louis Pasteur

Category:
Intelligence

He stood in stillness in an ancient grove of redwood trees, waiting for a wandering poem to land on him. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Category:
Redwoods

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Epitaphs