Paul Tillich Quotes

• Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

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• Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

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• We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

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• Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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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• The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

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• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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• There is no love which does not become help.

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  Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

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• Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.

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• Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

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• Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

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• The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

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

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