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We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

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Paul Tillich
Age: 79 †
Born: 1886
Born: August 20
Died: 1965
Died: October 22
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Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich
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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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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.
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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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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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The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.
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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 affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
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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.
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For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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Fear is the absence of faith.
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Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
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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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Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
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Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
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Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its home in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .
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Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
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