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Ernest Becker quotes: It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Ernest Becker quotes: Man must always imagine and believe in a "second" reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.

Man must always imagine and believe in a "second" reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.

Ernest Becker quotes: One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

Ernest Becker quotes: The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Ernest Becker quotes: All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Ernest Becker quotes: The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.

The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.

Ernest Becker quotes: We are gods with anuses.

We are gods with anuses.

Ernest Becker quotes: Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Ernest Becker quotes: People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

Ernest Becker quotes: The essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

The essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

Ernest Becker quotes: Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Ernest Becker quotes: Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Ernest Becker quotes: Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Ernest Becker quotes: Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ernest Becker quotes: Love is the problem of an animal ...

Love is the problem of an animal ...

Ernest Becker quotes: What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Ernest Becker quotes: The road to creativity passes ...

The road to creativity passes ...

Ernest Becker quotes: The "healthy" person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the "real" man, is the one who has transcended himself.

The "healthy" person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the "real" man, is the one who has transcended himself.

Ernest Becker quotes: Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to
live at all.

Ernest Becker quotes: From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. - LEO TOLSTOI

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. - LEO TOLSTOI

Ernest Becker quotes: Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Ernest Becker quotes: To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams.

To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams.

Ernest Becker quotes: The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.

Ernest Becker quotes: The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.

The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.

Ernest Becker quotes: To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

Ernest Becker quotes: Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

Ernest Becker quotes: Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Ernest Becker quotes: Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Ernest Becker quotes: Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.

Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.

Ernest Becker quotes: The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.

Ernest Becker quotes: Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Ernest Becker quotes: Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

Ernest Becker quotes: Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Ernest Becker quotes: What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ernest Becker quotes: Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.

Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.

Ernest Becker quotes: The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Ernest Becker quotes: Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

Ernest Becker quotes: The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.