Ernest Becker Quotes
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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God…is the center of all selves.
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I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
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See, the first thing about actors is, you're just trying to get a job; and you audition and audition and you finally get them. And you still consider yourself an auditioning actor. I auditioned for One Fine Day, I wasn't offered that. So you're still in that 'Hey, I'm just trying to get a job' thing. Then, you get to the point where, if you decide to do it, then they'll make the film. That's a different kind of responsibility, and it usually takes a couple of films to catch up. And then you have to actually pay attention to the kind of films that you're making.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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I know I speak for the Bishop when I tell you how sorry I am for all the pain you have suffered in your life.
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Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.
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So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.
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Focus on that sensation and see how it changes when you take a deep breath out.
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When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.
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Civilization is paralysis.
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Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
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Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
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Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
