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• I had the honor to be the first non-Jewish professor dismissed from a German university.

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• Faith comprises both itself and doubt of itself.

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• Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

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• The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

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• Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

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• Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason.

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• Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

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• An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

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• Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

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• Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

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• Boredom is rage spread thin.

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• Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

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• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

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• Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

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• If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

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• Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

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• I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

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• Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

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• Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

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• Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

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Paul Tillich (33)

Birth:	20th August, 1886
Death:	22nd October, 1965
Nationality:	American, German
Profession:	Philosopher, Theologian

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