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• In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

  Paul Tillich

  Death, Anxiety, Depth

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering.

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  Forgiving, Remember

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

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  Doubt, Embrace

  Paul Tillich (2010). “Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Loss

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• Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

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  Cynical, True Life

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.183, University of Chicago Press

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• Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

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  Desire, Reunion, States

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

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  Neurosis, Way, Avoiding

  The Courage to Be pt. 2, ch. 3 (1952)

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• Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.

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  Faith, Doubt, Essentials

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• 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.

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  Men, Self, Years

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 117), 1952.

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• 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.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Perfect

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Roots, Tree

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• Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Accountability

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• 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.

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  Destiny, Men, Personality

  "Systematic Theology".

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• 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.

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  Destiny, Cities, Humanity

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• 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.

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  Doubt, Serious, Ifs

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• [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.

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  Mean, Reality, Men

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• If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

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  Song, Tongue, Stirring

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• Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

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  Men, Able, Reason

  Paul Tillich (2011). “Dynamics of Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

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  Believe, Men, Decision

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• Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

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  Wine, Divine, Incarnation

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• In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

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  Men, Moral, Abstract

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• 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.

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  Bridges, Atmosphere, Enlightenment

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 116), 1952.

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• The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

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  Vitality, Destruction, Abyss

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.183, University of Chicago Press

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• Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

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  Attitude, Existentialism, Infinite

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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