“Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.” — Ernest Becker Mother nature Copy Share Image
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or… — Ernest Becker Class Copy Share Image
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything. — Ernest Becker Awareness Copy Share Image
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
“modern man tries to replace vital awe and wonder with a “How to do it” manual.” — Ernest Becker Awe and wonder Copy Share Image
“I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still… — Ernest Becker Science Copy Share Image
Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. — Ernest Becker Community Copy Share Image
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.” — Ernest Becker Modern man Copy Share Image
“Psychology narrows the cause for personal unhappiness down to the person himself, and then he is stuck with himself. But we know… — Ernest Becker Natural world Copy Share Image
“one of the great dangers of life is too much possibility, and that the place where we find people who have succumbed… — Ernest Becker Danger Copy Share Image
In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by… — Ernest Becker Animal Copy Share Image
“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. — Ernest Becker Desperate 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
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. — Ernest Becker Creativity 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
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Bounds Copy Share Image
“Man has "a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity, who can place himself imaginatively at a point in… — Ernest Becker Psychology 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
