Philosophy Quote by Ernest Becker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression - and with all this yet to die.”

“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to”

“We are gods with anuses.”

“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die.”

“Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoning”

“Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society”

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”

“You are the softness of the morning dew!”

“Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.”

“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All”

“The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.”