Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillichwas a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth20 August 1886
CountryGermany
failure design risk
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
nature moving sea
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
atheist speak embarrassment
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
inspirational wisdom lonely
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.
cruelty
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
doubt tools meaninglessness
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
reality names giving
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.
love-is and-love deterioration
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
absence
Fear is the absence of faith.
cynical true-life
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
decision risk being-free
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
loneliness solitude bears
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
philosophy philosophical expression
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.
mean asking-questions impact
Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.