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Being Quotes by Paul Tillich
- 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…
- The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning…
- He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
- Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
- Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
- 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…
- Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
- Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
- 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…
- Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
More Being Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong