[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.
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God. - Paul Tillich
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.
- Paul Tillich
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. - Paul Tillich
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
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… - Paul Tillich
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…
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. - Paul Tillich
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. - Paul Tillich
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
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… - Paul Tillich
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…
The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich
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. - Paul Tillich
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
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