Paul Tillich Quotes
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
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.
Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.
Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.
Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
