Animal Quote by Ernest Becker Download Open image ““Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.”” — Ernest Becker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animal Live Human nature Lie Order Live Lie Man Animal Philosophy Sociology
“Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.” — Teodor Flonta Copy Share Image
“The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“He’s a man, after all. They want to know what they believe they need to know, which is minimal because they are raw, uncivilized,… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.” — Gresham M. Sykes Copy Share Image
“A man who has given up his sovereignty fabricates excuses. He tells himself stories. He feeds himself lies.” — Ryan Michler Copy Share Image
“They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that’s damned lies.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.” — Lawrence Okafor Copy Share Image
“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… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
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… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“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… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
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… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“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… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
