Top 5 Norbert Elias Quotes (2025 Update)

Norbert Elias Quote: “I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one’s own dignity.”

1. “I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one’s own dignity.”

2. “The peculiarity of innovative fantasies in the form of works of art is that they are fantasies kindled by material which is accessible to many people. In a word, they are de-privatised fantasies. That sounds simple, but the whole difficulty of artistic creation shows itself when someone tries to cross this bridge – the bridge of de-privatisation. It could also be called the bridge of sublimation.”

— Norbert Elias

3. “Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.”

— Norbert Elias

4. “In other words, the more differentiated, relatively developed societies have cultivated a comparatively high tolerance for highly individualised ways of further developing the existing art canon; this facilitates experimentation and the breaching of stale conventions and can thus help to enrich the artistic pleasures available through seeing and hearing.”

— Norbert Elias

5. “Unlike dream ideas, those of the artist are attuned both to the material and to society. They are a specific form of communication, intended to elicit applause, resonance of a positive or negative kind, to arouse jor or anger, clapping or booing, love or hate.”

— Norbert Elias

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