Paul Tillich

Theologian, Philosopher German-American 1886 – 1965

Theologian; defined God as ground of being.

366 quotes

"The path of growth requires the willingness to be challenged and changed."
Change
"Faith is the courage to accept uncertainty as the condition of existence."
Faith
"The first duty of love is to listen."
Love
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
Solitude
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
Fear
"The mystery of being is the only ultimate explanation of being."
Philosophy
"Art is the realm of beauty."
Art
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."
Faith
"The ultimate concern is what makes religion, religion."
Faith
"Wisdom is knowledge transformed into character."
Wisdom
"Life is ambiguous, and we must embrace that ambiguity."
Life
"Grace happens to us, we do not happen to grace."
Hope
"The finite contains the infinite."
Philosophy
"Healing of the soul is the restoration of unity within the self."
Strength
"Hate is the dark passion of love."
Love
"Moral action emerges from moral consciousness."
Justice
"The struggle for justice is the struggle for humanity."
Justice
"Symbols open up dimensions of reality otherwise closed to us."
Art
"Courage is the ethical reality of man's self-affirmation."
Courage
"Being-itself transcends knowledge."
Knowledge
"The demonic is reality unmasked by morality."
Philosophy
"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."
Freedom
"Culture expresses our ultimate concerns."
Creativity
"The language of faith is the language of symbols."
Faith
"History is the arena of freedom and fate intertwined."
History
"Power without love becomes tyranny."
Power
"Love affirms the other in their otherness."
Love
"The numinous quality of nature reveals the sacred dimension of life."
Nature
"Estrangement is the condition of human existence before reconciliation."
Relationships
"Technology is the outcome of our capacity to transform nature."
Technology