Truth Quotes by Ernest Becker

8 Truth quotes by Ernest Becker

Becker’s focus on human mortality and meaning surfaces in these eight lines, where truth is examined as a vital part of confronting our own finitude.

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We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call…

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“With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion,…

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The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction…

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I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done…

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If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish…

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

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“For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of…

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“the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.”

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“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

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“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what…

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

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“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness…

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand…

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What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough…

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“This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be…

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“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this…

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We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs…

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“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result of the…

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

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“If the partner becomes God he can just as easily become the Devil; the reason is not far to seek. For one thing, one…

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“every human being is… equally unfree, that is, we… create out of freedom, a prison….”

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“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.”

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