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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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Every institution is inherently demonic.
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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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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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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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Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
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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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Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
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There is no condition for forgiveness.
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Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
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Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
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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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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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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
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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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In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
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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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Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
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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.
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