Quote

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

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
Glory
Nature
Together
Men
Belong
Salvation
Tragedy
Created

More quotes by 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 separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
Paul Tillich
Image
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
Image
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
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
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
Paul Tillich
Image
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.
Paul Tillich
Image
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
Paul Tillich
Image
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Image
Every institution is inherently demonic.
Paul Tillich
Image
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Paul Tillich
Image
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
Paul Tillich
Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
Paul Tillich
Image
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Paul Tillich
Image
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
Paul Tillich
Image
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
Paul Tillich
Image
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
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