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Causa Sui Quotes By Ernest Becker

What, actually, does it mean to be a tragic figure firmly in the grip of one's daimon? It means to possess great talent, to relentlessly pursue the expression of that talent through the unswerving affirmation of the causa-sui project that alone gives it birth and form. One is consumed by what he must do to express his gift. The passion of his character becomes inseparable from his dogma. Jung says the same thing beautifully when he concludes that Freud "must himself be so profoundly affected by the power of Eros that he actually wished to elevate it into a dogma...like a religious numen."
Eros is precisely the natural energy of the child's organism that will not let him rest, that keeps propelling him forward in a driven way while he fashions the lie of his character-which ironically permits that very drivenness to continue, but now under the illusion of self-control. — Ernest Becker

Causa Sui Quotes By Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Causa Sui Quotes By Baruch Spinoza

By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent. — Baruch Spinoza

Causa Sui Quotes By Charles C. Ryrie

In other words, the death to sin of Romans 6 is a separation from the power of the sin nature to cause the believer to continue in sin. It — Charles C. Ryrie

Causa Sui Quotes By Judith Martin

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force. — Judith Martin

Causa Sui Quotes By Luce Irigaray

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being. — Luce Irigaray

Causa Sui Quotes By Ludwig Buchner

A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair. — Ludwig Buchner

Causa Sui Quotes By Nora Roberts

Caught him grinning at her. Why do you purposely aggravate — Nora Roberts

Causa Sui Quotes By Ernest Becker

But now the problem of the causa-sui project of the genius. In the normal Oedipal project the person internalizes the parents and the superego they embody, that is, the culture at large. But the genius cannot do this because his project is unique; it cannot be filled up by the parents or the culture. It is created specifically by a renunciation of the parents, a renunciation of what they represent and even of their own concrete persons-at least in fantasy-as there doesn't seem to be anything in them that has caused the genius. Here we see whence the genius gets his extra burden of guilt: he has renounced the father both spiritually and physically. This act gives him extra anxiety because now he is vulnerable in his turn, as he has no one to stand on. He is alone in his freedom. Guilt is a function of fear, as Rank said. — Ernest Becker

Causa Sui Quotes By Khalil Gibran

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. — Khalil Gibran

Causa Sui Quotes By Molly Harper

If you want to hurt me fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I'm sleeping. But nobody nobody screws with my dog. — Molly Harper