Paul Tillich Quotes

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

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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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• There is no love which does not become help.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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