The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much… — Ernest Becker Animal Copy Share Image
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of… — Ernest Becker Faith Copy Share Image
“With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion,… — Ernest Becker Art Copy Share Image
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt,… — Ernest Becker Destiny Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an… — Ernest Becker Culture Copy Share Image
The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And… — Ernest Becker Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we… — Ernest Becker Animals Copy Share Image
We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a… — Ernest Becker Doubt Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it… — Ernest Becker Art Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality… — Ernest Becker Death Copy Share Image
