Quotes by : Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

People were always ready to yield theirwills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chancefor....

And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness....

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

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

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects....

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible....

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

We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it....