Awareness Quote by Ernest Becker

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body…

— Ernest Becker

Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.…

— Shadow

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will…

— Denis Diderot

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an…

— John Burroughs

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel