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Ernest Becker has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we…
• To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once…
• I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done…
• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity…
• The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates…
• The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but…
• the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
• Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

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