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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
Perennial
Existential
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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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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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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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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 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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We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
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Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
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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 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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For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
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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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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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One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion it is the blood of life.
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element 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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Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
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Love that cares, listens.
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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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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
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