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We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
Paul Tillich
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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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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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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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The first duty of love is to listen.
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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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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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The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
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Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.
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The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
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The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
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Every institution is inherently demonic.
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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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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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Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
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Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
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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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There is no condition for forgiveness.
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Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
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