Quote

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Tillich
Age: 79 †
Born: 1886
Born: August 20
Died: 1965
Died: October 22
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich
Failure
Failing
Design
Risk
Whole
Never
Fails
Forgiven
Risks

More quotes by Paul Tillich

Image
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
Paul Tillich
Image
Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.
Paul Tillich
Image
Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
Paul Tillich
Image
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
Image
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
Paul Tillich
Image
Love that cares, listens.
Paul Tillich
Image
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. Existential in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.
Paul Tillich
Image
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Paul Tillich
Image
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
Paul Tillich
Image
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
Paul Tillich
Image
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
Paul Tillich
Image
Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.
Paul Tillich
Image
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich
Image
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.
Paul Tillich
Image
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion it is the blood of life.
Paul Tillich
Image
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is ambiguity: the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.
Paul Tillich
Image
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
Image
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
Paul Tillich
Image
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.
Paul Tillich
Image
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
Paul Tillich