If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself. Ernest Becker More Quotes by Ernest Becker More Quotes From Ernest Becker 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 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 mean lying reality Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. Ernest Becker denial-of-death existential fall The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru Ernest Becker leader animal men All power is in essence power to deny mortality. Ernest Becker mortality existential essence Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. Ernest Becker slavery guilt kind 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 animal love order the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith Ernest Becker existentialism analysis problem We are gods with anuses. Ernest Becker anus We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad. Ernest Becker mad cost men
