Martin Buber Quotes

• Every particular Thou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particular Thou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou.

  Martin Buber

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• Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation with other persons.

  Martin Buber

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• All actual life is encounter.

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• Everyone must come out of his exile in his own way.

  Martin Buber

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• The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

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• To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

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• Through the Thou a person becomes I.

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• There are three principles in a man’s being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don’t do what I say.

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• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

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• The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

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• Play is the exultation of the possible.

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• I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

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• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

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• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

  Martin Buber

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• An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

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• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

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• We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

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Martin Buber (18)

Birth:	8th February, 1878
Death:	13th May, 1965
Nationality:	Austrian, Israeli
Profession:	Editor, Philosopher, Professor

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