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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
Listens
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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.
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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.
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One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion it is the blood of life.
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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
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In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
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Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
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God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
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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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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
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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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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
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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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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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The first duty of love is to listen.
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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.
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The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
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