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Order Quotes by Ernest Becker
- When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the…
- People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
- It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
- Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering…
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