Paul Johannes Tillich Famous Quotes



The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."


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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure."
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Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
Patrick Henry

The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.
Charles Galloway

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him."
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What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr

Reality is something you rise above.
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"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
Benjamin Franklin

"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings."
Felix Frankfurter