...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
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Stewart Onan
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal.

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Unknown
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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J.k. Rowling
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
More Quotes By Ernest Becker
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
We are gods with anuses.
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and...
The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awarness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no longer provides for him, society contrives to help him forget. In the...
