Quotes by : Ernest Becker

Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoningof the earth by the nineteenth-century hero....

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal....

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

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

We are gods with anuses.

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

In this view, man is an energy-convertingorganism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage....

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

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....