Paul Tillich Quotes on Truth
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Lutheran theologian and philosopher of religion and one of the most widely read religious thinkers of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Paul Tillich on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Faith is being grasped by an ultimate concern.”
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
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Attributed to Paul Tillich:
“Religion is the substance of culture; culture is the form of religion.”
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“It is my conviction that the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, of true and false, of creative and destructive forces—both individual and social. Sometimes I have the feeling that [irony] shows some awareness of the ambiguity of life—as long as it does not degenerate into mere cynicism. The awareness of the ambiguity of one's own highest achievements (as well as one's own deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.”
The Ambiguity of Perfection”, Time (May 17, 1963)