Ernest Becker Quotes About Mortality

Quotes about: Mortality

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

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Self, Roots

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

• 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

  Destiny, Self, Perfect

• All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

  Ernest Becker

  Essence, Existential, Mortality

  ernest becker (1975). “escape from evil”

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