Paul Tillich Quotes

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

There is no love which does not become help.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements, as well as one’s deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

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.

The first duty of love is to listen.

[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.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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