Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich More Quotes by Paul Tillich More Quotes From Paul Tillich In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part. Paul Tillich self men years Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. Paul Tillich true-life cynical 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. Paul Tillich states answers religion Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. Paul Tillich strikes pain grace In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Paul Tillich anxiety depth death Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions. Paul Tillich decision men believe But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision. Paul Tillich destiny personality men The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. Paul Tillich abyss vitality destruction Astonishment is the root of philosophy. Paul Tillich roots tree philosophy Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity. Paul Tillich eternity real forgotten Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." Paul Tillich parenting love-is kids Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich accountability destiny men Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. Paul Tillich avoiding neurosis way Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Paul Tillich concerned states faith In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject. Paul Tillich abstract moral men Boredom is rage spread thin. Paul Tillich boredom rage blessing There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth. Paul Tillich serious ifs doubt The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened. Paul Tillich destiny cities humanity Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human Paul Tillich incarnation wine divine Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason Paul Tillich able reason men
