Animal Quote by Ernest Becker

“Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.”

Ernest Becker

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“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 food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

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“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

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“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what…

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Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

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“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness…

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand…

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What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough…

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“This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be…

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“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this…

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We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs…

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“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result of the…

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“The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.”

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I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from…

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Eric Hoffer

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

William Shakespeare

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“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 food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

Ernest Becker