Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 20, 1886 Death: October 22, 1965
Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the c….
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions..
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt..
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him..
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were sa….
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith..
The first duty of love is to listen..
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life..
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable..
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 bein….
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated..
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in ….
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of go….
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society..
Love that cares, listens..
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy..
Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning..
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being..
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness..
There is no love which does not become help..
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!.