There 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 Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. – Elias Canetti
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong