Paul Tillich Quotes

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in particular, when you think, well, I'm going to believe what I like, but I'll say what the powerful want, you do that over time, and you believe what you say.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

It wasn't a Freudian slip. I wasn't even aware of it.