The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe . — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Symbols have one characteristic in common with signs; they point beyond themselves to something else. The red sign at the street corner points to… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
When you love someone and you love them with your heart, it never disappears when you're apart. Anh when you love someone and you've… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image