Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. All that is necessary for the # triumph… — 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
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 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
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