Paul Tillich Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)
The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.