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• He who knows about depth knows about God.

  Paul Tillich

  Depth, Knows

  'The Shaking of the Foundations' (1948) ch. 7

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• ...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

  Paul Tillich

  Names, Doctrine, Existential

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• Boredom is rage spread thin.

  Paul Tillich

  Blessing, Boredom, Rage

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• 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 of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Reality, Names, Giving

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• Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

  Paul Tillich

  Kids, Parenting, Love Is

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• The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

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  Joy, Anxiety, Desire

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

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  Spiritual, Independent, Men

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

  Paul Tillich

  Love Is, Blood, Reunion

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• Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

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  Anxiety, Doubt, Castles

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• I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

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  Self, Unity, Overcoming

  Paul Tillich, Erdmann Sturm (1998). “Sozialphilosophische und Ethische Schriften”, p.700, Walter de Gruyter

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• Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

  Paul Tillich

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

  Paul Tillich

  Pain, Work, Joy

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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• Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

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  Real, Forgotten, Eternity

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• Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

  Paul Tillich

  Anxiety, Phrases, Paradoxical

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

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  Command Not, Justice, Principles

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• Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.

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  Men, Creating, Knowing

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

  Paul Tillich

  Darkness, Vision, Height

  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.50, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

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  Dozen, Tests, Ethics

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• 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 answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

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  Religion, Answers, States

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Personality, Mind

  "Dynamics of Faith". Book by Paul Tillich, 1957.

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• Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

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  Moving, Destiny, Two

  Paul Tillich (1973). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

  Paul Tillich

  Science, Religion, Culture

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• Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

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  Doubt, Embrace

  Paul Tillich (2010). “Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering.

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  Forgiving, Remember

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• Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

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  Cynical, True Life

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.183, University of Chicago Press

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