Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 20, 1886 Death: October 22, 1965
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern..
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not ….
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 meaning….
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion..
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge..
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom..
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more c….
Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool o….
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation..
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 mo….
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemologic….
Forgiving presupposes remembering..
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten..
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined a….
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surr….
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate..
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself..
Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is t….
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions..
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song..