Quotes by : Ernest Becker

Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems....

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.

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

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal-....

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

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is....

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