Ernest Becker Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

• The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways

  Ernest Becker

  Real, Men, Animal

• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Animal, Self

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Ernest Becker

  Love, Animal, Men

• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

  Ernest Becker

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• Love is the problem of an animal.

  Ernest Becker

  Animal, Love Is, Problem

• In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

  Ernest Becker

  Fate, Exercise, Animal

• Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

  Ernest Becker

  Love, Animal, Order

• 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

  Ernest Becker

  Animal, Men, Leader

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