Paul Tillich

Theologian, Philosopher German-American 1886 – 1965

Theologian; defined God as ground of being.

366 quotes

"Inspiration is the encounter with the transcendent in the ordinary."
Inspiration
"Health is the integration of body, mind, and spirit."
Health
"Money is crystallized social power."
Money
"Leadership is the acceptance of responsibility for others' becoming."
Leadership
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but its just resolution."
Peace
"Motivation arises from connection to ultimate meaning."
Motivation
"The other always exceeds my understanding of the other."
Relationships
"Literature explores the possibilities of human meaning."
Literature
"Change is the signature of all finite reality."
Change
"The body is the way the soul appears in the world."
Life
"Hope is the anticipation of the possible in the actual."
Hope
"Humor reveals the absurdity that underlies existence."
Humor
"Friendship is a covenant of mutual becoming."
Friendship
"The search for knowledge is the search for meaning."
Knowledge
"Death is the boundary that gives life its shape."
Death
"The unconditional makes itself known through the conditional."
Faith
"Strength lies not in the absence of vulnerability but in its acceptance."
Strength
"Fear points toward what we most deeply care about."
Fear
"The act of acceptance transforms the thing accepted."
Change
"Spirit is not opposed to matter but expresses itself through matter."
Philosophy
"The quest for happiness is itself the obstacle to happiness."
Happiness
"Language is the house of being."
Philosophy
"Reconciliation requires the acknowledgment of separation."
Relationships
"The unconscious mind speaks in the language of symbols."
"Tradition is not the worship of ash but the preservation of fire."
History
"The present moment contains infinite possibility."
Time
"Power is the actualization of potential."
Power
"Love requires the courage to be vulnerable."
Love
"Nature teaches the language of becoming."
Nature
"The aesthetic dimension of existence is not secondary to the ethical."
Art