Cynical Quote by Paul Tillich Download Open image “Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.” — Paul Tillich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical Life True life True to life
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour… — Kurt Vile 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 of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage… — Paul Tillich Copy Share
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 the order to stop the movements of cars atcertain intervals. A red light and the stopping of cars have essentially no relation to eachother, but conventionally theyare united as long as the convention lasts. The same… — Paul Tillich Copy Share
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share
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
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before… — Steve Goodier Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
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As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
