Ernest Becker Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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.

  Ernest Becker

  Liars, Lying, Normal

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

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Order, Ironic

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Trying, Desperate

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

• What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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