Quote

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Paul Tillich

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Higher
Identification
Virtue
Affirmation
Perfect
Mystical
Form
Courageous
Self
Surrender
Radical
Complete
Aristocratic
Sacrifice
Transcends

More quotes by Paul Tillich

Image
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
Image
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.
Paul Tillich
Image
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.
Paul Tillich
Image
Every institution is inherently demonic.
Paul Tillich
Image
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
Paul Tillich
Image
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.
Paul Tillich
Image
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
Paul Tillich
Image
The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .
Paul Tillich
Image
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
Paul Tillich
Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
Paul Tillich
Image
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.
Paul Tillich
Image
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
Paul Tillich
Image
Love that cares, listens.
Paul Tillich
Image
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Image
Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its home in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .
Paul Tillich
Image
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich
Image
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.
Paul Tillich
Image
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich
Image
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion it is the blood of life.
Paul Tillich
Image
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich