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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
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
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
The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
— Ernest Becker
All power is in essence power to deny mortality.
— Ernest Becker
The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.
— Ernest Becker
We are gods with anuses.
— Ernest Becker
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
The essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.
— Ernest Becker
Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.
— Ernest Becker
Horror alone brings peace of mind.
— Ernest Becker
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
— Ernest Becker
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
— Ernest Becker
Love is the problem of an animal ...
— Ernest Becker
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
— Ernest Becker
The road to creativity passes ...
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The "healthy" person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the "real" man, is the one who has transcended himself.
— Ernest Becker
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
To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams.
— Ernest Becker
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
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
— Ernest Becker
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
— Ernest Becker
Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.
— Ernest Becker
The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.
— Ernest Becker
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
— Ernest Becker
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
— Ernest Becker
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
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
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
