Ernest Becker Quotes

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ernest Becker

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• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Pass

• Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Causes
  • Bragging
  • Boston

• Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Feels
  • Boys

• Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Causes

• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • War
  • Slavery

• What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Believe
  • Prayer
  • Causes

• When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Up
  • Live
  • Done

• I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • Causes
  • Fighter
  • Suggestion

• I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Animal
  • Pay
  • Causes

• The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Society
  • Law
  • Competition

• Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Law

• Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Knows
  • Littles
  • Causes

• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Words
  • Knowledge

• It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Causes

• Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

  

  Euripides
  • Respect
  • Anger
  • Causes

• Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Men
  • Universe

• As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • War
  • Nations

• I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Boys
  • Causes
  • Scripture

• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  

  John Milton
  • Earth
  • Sentence
  • Mortality

• I was elected prime minister in 2014 under incredibly difficult circumstances: A third of the country was overrun by terrorists, the economy was struggling, people were divided by sectarianism, and relations with the wider world were strained.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Economy
  • Terrorist
  • Prime Minister

• No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Film
  • Speed
  • Print

• Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Causes
  • Inevitable
  • Mortality