Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. — Ernest Becker Existential Copy Share Image
If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish… — Ernest Becker Ifs Copy Share Image
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death. — Ernest Becker Death Copy Share Image
“doesn’t matter whether the cultural hero-system is frankly magical, religious, and primitive or secular, scientific, and civilized. It is still a mythical… — Ernest Becker Three generations Copy Share Image
“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the… — Ernest Becker Death Copy Share Image
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the… — Ernest Becker Anxious Copy Share Image
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates… — Ernest Becker Art 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
“If the frustrations are not surrounded by anxiety, fear of life, insecure love and support, then the child progresses easily and naturally… — Ernest Becker Children Copy Share Image
“And so, beginning with the small early frustrations and deprivations, the child is helped to govern himself. his ego develops by learning… — Ernest Becker Children Copy Share Image
“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.” — Ernest Becker Modern man Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Beauty Copy Share Image
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. — Ernest Becker Endure Copy Share Image
Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship. — Ernest Becker Devastation Copy Share Image
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never… — Ernest Becker Doom Copy Share Image
“We have become victims of our own art. We touch people on the outsides of their bodies, and they us, but we… — Ernest Becker Art Copy Share Image
Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own… — Ernest Becker Animal 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
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Art Copy Share Image
“the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.” — Ernest Becker Nature Copy Share Image
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but… — Ernest Becker Alive Copy Share Image
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. — Ernest Becker Burden Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels… — Ernest Becker Dies Copy Share Image
