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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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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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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
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Love that cares, listens.
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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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Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'
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Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
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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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One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion it is the blood of life.
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Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
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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 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.
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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Every institution is inherently demonic.
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Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
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There is no condition for forgiveness.
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