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• In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Courageous, Shows

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

  Paul Tillich

  Fate, Self, Anxiety

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

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• Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Tragedy, Together

  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

  Paul Tillich

  Attitude, Existentialism, Existence

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Self, Opposites

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• [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 to be, the courage to be as oneself.

  Paul Tillich

  Opposites, Political, Degrees

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 112), 1952.

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• Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

  Paul Tillich

  Attitude, Existentialism, Infinite

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

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• Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

  Paul Tillich

  Philosophical, Philosophical Questions, Answers

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

  Paul Tillich

  Art, Character, Literature

  Paul Tillich (1987). “On art and architecture”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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