Paul Tillich Quotes about Character

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The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is ambiguity: the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Paul Tillich

Character, Evil, Creative

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Paul Tillich

Character, Courageous, Shows

Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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 opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

Paul Tillich

Character, Self, Opposites

Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”