Paul Tillich

"Every genuine philosophy must face the void."

"Imagination is where freedom becomes possible."

"The ultimate concern gives shape to all other concerns."

"Hatred reveals the absence of understanding."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but its just resolution."

"Death teaches us what life means."

"Participation in being is what makes life worth living."

"Estrangement from ourselves precedes estrangement from others."

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself."

"Knowledge without love becomes tyranny."

"A nation that forgets its history is condemned to repeat it."

"The symbol opens dimensions that concepts cannot reach."

"Happiness pursued becomes happiness lost."

"The demonic is the creative force corrupted by self-interest."

"Every form of mental illness is also a form of estrangement."

"The ground of being is deeper than any rational explanation."

"Education should produce not scholars but human beings."

"War is the breakdown of dialogue made manifest."

"The unconscious cannot be ignored without psychological cost."

"Love requires the willingness to be vulnerable."

"Success measured only in external terms is hollow."

"The sacred speaks through the ordinary when we learn to listen."

"Prejudice is the armor of the threatened self."

"Change is frightening because it threatens our established identity."

"The pursuit of truth demands intellectual honesty above all."

"Community is where healing begins."

"Silence can be the deepest form of communication."

"The future is not determined but is open to human freedom."

"Despair is a luxury that the responsible cannot afford."

"Music expresses what words cannot contain."