Conor K

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself naturally in a beyond of superior, awesome, all-embracing power.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Psychology narrows the cause for personal unhappiness down to the person himself, and then he is stuck with himself. But we know that the universal and general cause for personal badness, guilt, and inferiority is the natural world and the person’s relationship to it as a symbolic animal who must find a secure place in it.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death