Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker
Ernest Beckerwas a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer. He is noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 September 1924
lying trying desperate
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
men levels existentialism
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
men two feet
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.
men support may
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
men burden denial-of-death
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.
love animal order
Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
animal love-is problem
Love is the problem of an animal...
fall existential denial-of-death
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
animal love-is men
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
men animal leader
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