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Ernest Becker Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith Picture Quote #1

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself Picture Quote #1

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level Picture Quote #1

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The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive Picture Quote #1

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Ernest Becker Quotes) The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there (Ernest Becker Quotes) 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 (Ernest Becker Quotes) The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith (Ernest Becker Quotes) What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself (Ernest Becker Quotes) Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level (Ernest Becker Quotes) The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive (Ernest Becker Quotes) Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem (Ernest Becker Quotes) 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 (Ernest Becker Quotes)

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