“The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.”

— Paul Tillich , book The Courage to Be

Source: The Courage to Be (1952), p. 120

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German-American theologian and philosopher 1886–1965

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