Modern man Quote by Ernest Becker

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.”

— Anonymous

“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.”

— Ernest Becker

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

— Rod Judkins

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov