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

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

Ernest Becker Quote: “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.”

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

Ernest Becker Quote: “The sadist doesn’t create a masochist; he finds him already made.”

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

— Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker Quote: “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.”

104. “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

Ernest Becker Quote: “This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be undermined – another way of saying that they fear they will no longer be able to control life and death.”

105. “This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be undermined – another way of saying that they fear they will no longer be able to control life and death.”

— Ernest Becker

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