Extinction Quote by Ernest Becker Download Open image “What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.” — Ernest Becker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extinction Fear Insignificance Inspirational Men
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Every species we cause to become extinct we come closer to our own extinction — Unkown Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of… — David Quammen 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
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Human race had never planned to show up in this universe. I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield… — Empress Dowager Cixi Copy Share Image
“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
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