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The Denial of Death

by Ernest Becker

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"Becker’s recounting of Freudian psychoanalysis and the immediate and direct influences of Freud, in addition to selective biographical information and occasional laugh out loud quips - have made this book far more enjoyable than I ever would have expected. Most people see Freud and roll their eyes, I was the same way. Can’t wait to read more of his detailing of prescriptive heroism." — May 31, 2022 07:49AM

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“But you cannot urge national political renewal on the basis of descriptions of fact. You have to describe the country in terms of what you passionately hope it will become, as well as in the terms of what you know it to be now. You have to be loyal to a dream country rather than to the one to which you wake up every morning. Unless such loyalty exists, the ideal has no chance of becoming actual.”
― Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country

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“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”
― Richard M. Rorty

tags: atheism, atheist, civilization, descendants, future, global-civilization, hope, idealism, law, love, perfection, secular, secularist, sense-of-holy, utopia

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“What is to come? What does the future hold? I don’t know, I have no idea. When from a fixed point a spider plunges down as is its nature, it sees always before it an empty space in which it cannot find a footing however much it flounders. That is how it is with me: always an empty space before me, what drives me on is a result that lies behind me. This life is back-to-front and terrible, unendurable.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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“To love is to will the good of the other.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas

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“The duty of a man is to be useful to his fellow-men; if possible, to be useful to many of them; failing this, to be useful to a few; failing this, to be useful to his neighbours, and, failing them, to himself: for when he helps others, he advances the general interests of mankind. Just as he who makes himself a worse man does harm not only to himself but to all those to whom he might have done good if he had made himself a better one, so he who deserves well of himself does good to others by the very fact that he is preparing what will be of service to them.”
― Seneca, Dialogues

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