Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. - Ernest Becker
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
- Ernest Becker
People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves - Ernest Becker
People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an ob… - Ernest Becker
We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an ob…
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all … - Ernest Becker
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all …
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; b… - Ernest Becker
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; b…
If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themsel… - Ernest Becker
If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themsel…
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terro… - Ernest Becker
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terro…
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fa… - Ernest Becker
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fa…
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything. - Ernest Becker
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
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