Ernest Becker Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Devastation, Worship

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• We are gods with anuses.

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  Anus

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• ...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¢.

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  Men, Self, People

  "The Denial of Death". Book by Ernest Becker, 1973.

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• If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

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  Destiny, Self, Perfect

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• The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

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  Men, Burden, Denial Of Death

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

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  Betrayal, Real, Depressed Person

  "The Denial of Death".

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• The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

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  Keys, Creative, World

  Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.176, Souvenir Press

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• Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Guilt, Burden

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

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  Men, Victory, Dying

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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• When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

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  Religioso, Real, Hombres

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Men, Support, Heroism

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• One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

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  Sorry, War, Men

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Sólo el horror aporta tranquilidad.

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  Mind, Peace Of Mind, Horror

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• The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

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  Spring, Real, Creativity

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Sports, Men, Feds

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• In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

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  Fate, Exercise, Animal

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• All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

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  Essence, Existential, Mortality

  ernest becker (1975). “escape from evil”

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• To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

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  Diversión, Hombres, Jugar

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• ¿Cuál es entonces el ideal para la salud mental? Una ilusión vivida y convincente que no mienta sobre la vida, la muerte y la realidad; una lo bastante honesta como para seguir sus propios mandamientos: Es decir, no matar, no quitar la vida a los demás para justificarse.

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  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

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  Guilt, Slavery, Kind

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

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  Fall, Existential, Denial Of Death

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the problem of an animal.

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  Animal, Love Is, Problem

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru
  It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

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  Animal, Men, Leader

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• Podríamos decir que el psicoanálisis nos reveló las complejas penalidades de negar la verdad de la condición del hombre, lo que podríamos llamar los costes de fingir no estar loco.

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  Men, Mad, Cost

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

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  Analysis, Existentialism, Problem

  Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.79, Souvenir Press

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