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
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard