Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible,
Ernest BeckerGenuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
Ernest BeckerTo live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
Ernest BeckerI have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still crowd me and give me no rest, and I see no way to avoid ambitious synthetic attempts; either we get some kind of grip on the accumulation of thought or we continue to wallow helplessly, to starve amidst plenty. So I gamble with science and write.
Ernest BeckerThe irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
Ernest Beckerthe best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
Ernest BeckerStichwörter: god religion existentialism
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
Ernest BeckerStichwörter: meaning existentialism
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 BeckerStichwörter: existentialism mental-health
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
Ernest BeckerStichwörter: religion existentialism
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others to get a breath-quickening glimpse of the queen in her ritual procession, and confess to the priests and attend church. And we wonder why, with all this power capital drawn from so many sources, we are deeply anxious about the meaning of our lives. The reason is plain enough: none of these, nor all of them taken together, represents an integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust.
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