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Ernest Becker Quotes: It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
         

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.


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If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.



War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.



The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.



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.

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.



What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.



Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.



Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.



Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.



Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.





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