Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason Paul Tillich More Quotes by Paul Tillich More Quotes From Paul Tillich [A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means. Paul Tillich menmeanreality Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness. Paul Tillich holinessawareness Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness. Paul Tillich wisdomspiritualloss Love is the infinite which is given to the finite. Paul Tillich giveninfinitelove-is Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. Paul Tillich courage-to-lovevirtuegreater In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character. Paul Tillich courageousshowscharacter The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie. Paul Tillich atmosphereenlightenmentbridges 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 paradoxicalanxietyphrases Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation. Paul Tillich tragedytogethermen 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 personalityfaithmind I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now! Paul Tillich mindkindnessbeautiful Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself. Paul Tillich embracedoubt Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Paul Tillich philosophical-questionsphilosophicalanswers Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. Paul Tillich reunionstatesdesire Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation. Paul Tillich sacrificeselfperfect Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. Paul Tillich literaturecharacterart The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe . Paul Tillich anxietyfateself Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas . Paul Tillich platohomemen 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 existentialismexistenceattitude If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. Paul Tillich stirringtonguesong
