Top 100 Ernest Becker Quotes (2025 Update) [Page 3]

101. “Only by proper performance in a social context does the individual fashion and renew himself by purposeful action in a world of shared meaning.”

— Ernest Becker

102. “When Norman O. Brown said that Western society since Newton, no matter how scientific or secular it claims to be, is still as “religious” as any other, this is what he meant: “civilized” society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal.”

— Ernest Becker

103. “For ages, when philosophers talked about the core of man they referred to it as his “essence,” something fixed in his nature, deep down, some special quality or substance. But nothing like it was ever found; man’s peculiarity still remained a dilemma. The reason it was never found, as Erich Fromm put it in an excellent discussion, was that there was no essence, that the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.”

— Ernest Becker

104. “The sadist doesn’t create a masochist; he finds him already made.”

— Ernest Becker

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