Paul Tillich

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

— Paul Tillich

Every institution is inherently demonic.

— Paul Tillich

He who knows about depth knows about God.

— Paul Tillich

There is no love which does not become help.

— Paul Tillich

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

— Paul Tillich

Our spirituality is the ground of our being.

— Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

— Paul Tillich

Love that cares, listens.

— Paul Tillich

“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”

— Paul Tillich

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

— Paul Tillich

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

— Paul Tillich

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

— Paul Tillich

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

— Paul Tillich

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

— Paul Tillich

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

— Paul Tillich

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

— Paul Tillich

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable

— Paul Tillich

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

— Paul Tillich

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

— Paul Tillich

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

— Paul Tillich

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of…

— Paul Tillich

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

— Paul Tillich

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

— Paul Tillich

“The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.”

— Paul Tillich

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question.…

— Paul Tillich

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They…

— Paul Tillich

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person.…

— Paul Tillich

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of…

— Paul Tillich

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes…

— Paul Tillich

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure…

— Paul Tillich

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly…

— Paul Tillich

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through…

— Paul Tillich

“Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language…

— Paul Tillich

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by…

— Paul Tillich

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in…

— Paul Tillich

“It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without…

— Paul Tillich

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt…

— Paul Tillich

Symbols have one characteristic in common with signs; they point beyond themselves to something else. The red sign at the street corner…

— Paul Tillich

Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of…

— Paul Tillich

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain…

— Paul Tillich