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One Quotes by Ernest Becker
- What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
- 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…
- If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even…
- What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to…
- What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
- Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare