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Humans Quotes by Ernest Becker
- The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely…
- The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural…
- 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.
- the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
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