“Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.” Quote by Elias Canetti
“The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.” ThinkingWorldTwoMightLiteratureDifferencesPositionIllnessMental IllnessSufficientRulersImpressive Author:Elias Canetti
“It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.” SaidImportantKnowingQuotations Author:Elias Canetti
“Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.” PeopleIfsUse Author:Elias Canetti
“To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.” MeanAwarenessPerception Author:Andre Breton
“Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.” ChildrenGivenEasyWifeShadowOur ChildrenWoodsSubstanceYour ChildrenMistressEscapismHopes And FearsEasy Life Author:Andre Breton
“In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.” WorldHappensHumanityHappenedEventsFutureFavors Author:Andre Breton
“To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.” MeanStatesImaginationJusticeOffersAbsolutesSlaveryOneselfBetrayalBetrayMy ImaginationElimination Author:Andre Breton
“There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.” LibertyAtheismDangerousDangerPositive Atheism Author:Andre Breton
“Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.” MeanStatesReasonMoralWrittenPureConcernAbsenceAestheticPsychicsProposeSurrealismWritten Word Author:Andre Breton
“Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.” MayHandsRealityLastsMovingAsksMemoriesForgetSecretTakenLove YouSpeechMy FriendsProfoundCopiesArrangementsTestamentVansPrintingGlovesCemeterySurrealismSecret SocietyBuryingWills And Testaments Author:Andre Breton