Quotes by Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker

…Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

Men

People

Self

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Essence

Existential

Mortality

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Burden

Guilt

Responsibility

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Evil

Hero

Victory

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man’s power worship.

Devastation

Men

Worship

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Feds

Men

Sports

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Heroism

Men

Support

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Guilt

Results

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Horror

Mind

Peace Of Mind

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 terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

Encouragement

Inspirational Life

Pain

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Analysis

Animal

Anus

Anxiety

Art

Artist

Awareness

Betrayal

Burden

Children

Class

Cost

Creative

Creativity

Death

Denial Of Death

Depressed Person

Desperate

Destiny

Detours

Devastation

Drinking

Dying

Encouragement

Ends

Essence

Evil

Exercise

Existential

Existentialism

Extinction

Fall

Fate

Feds

Fun

Guilt

Hero

Heroism

Horror

Insignificance

Inspirational Life

Ironic

Keys

Kind

Leader

Levels

Liars

Love

Love Is

Lying

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Quotes by Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker

…Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man’s power worship.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

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