Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 20, 1886 Death: October 22, 1965
The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined a….
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern..
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion..
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten..
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the o….
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemologic….
The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe ..
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….
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its a….
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude..
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human.
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite..
Every institution is inherently demonic..
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions..
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be r….
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 des….
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science)..
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….
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments..
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself..
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the me….