“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Animal Copy Share Image
“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.” — Ernest Becker Psychology Copy Share Image
“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version… — Ernest Becker Good man Copy Share Image
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. — Ernest Becker Guilt Copy Share Image
“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too… — Ernest Becker 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
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one… — Ernest Becker Compelling 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
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.… — Ernest Becker Civilized society Copy Share Image
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call… — Ernest Becker Complexes Copy Share Image
“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result… — Ernest Becker Modern man Copy Share Image
“The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.” — Ernest Becker Dreams Copy Share Image
“If the partner becomes God he can just as easily become the Devil; the reason is not far to seek. For one… — Ernest Becker Good and bad Copy Share Image
“every human being is… equally unfree, that is, we… create out of freedom, a prison….” — Ernest Becker Freedom Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one’s own self is elevated by joining one’s destiny to… — Ernest Becker Love Copy Share Image
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker Awareness 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
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Activity Copy Share Image
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday… — Ernest Becker Animal Copy Share Image
People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves — Ernest Becker Creativity 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 Active Copy Share Image
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. — Ernest Becker Contradiction Copy Share Image
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker Achieve Copy Share Image
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
