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Love that cares, listens.

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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
Love
Listens
Cares
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
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The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
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For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
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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.
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Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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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.
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We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
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In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
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Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
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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.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
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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.
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Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.
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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!
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