“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
“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 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
“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
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Causes 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
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
“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
“the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.” — Ernest Becker Communication Copy Share Image
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.” — Ernest Becker Disillusionment Copy Share Image
Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. — Ernest Becker Community 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
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Confrontation Copy Share Image
