Famous Ernest Becker Quotes

  • Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. – Ernest Becker

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

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

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

  • Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. – Ernest Becker

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

  • The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. – Ernest Becker

    The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.– Ernest Becker