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Existential Quotes by Ernest Becker
- The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them…
- Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
- All power is in essence power to deny mortality.
- the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
- Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
- ...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give…
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