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Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

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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
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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
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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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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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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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Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
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We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
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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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