"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being..." - Paul Tillich

🏺 Philosophy

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”

Tillich defines existential courage as self-acceptance despite feelings of unworthiness.

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

— Paul Tillich

“The first duty of love is to listen”

— Paul Tillich

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”

— Paul Tillich

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone”

— Paul Tillich

“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and solitude to express the glory”

— Paul Tillich

“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”

— Paul Tillich