Paul Tillich

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

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

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

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

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.

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.

There is no love which does not become help.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

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