Paul Tillich Quotes

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

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Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

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Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." Paul Tillich

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Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

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Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

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Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

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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.

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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

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