Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not… — Martin Buber Copy Share
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,… — Martin Buber Copy Share
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber Copy Share
The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who… — Martin Buber Copy Share
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a… — Martin Buber Copy Share
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. — Martin Buber Copy Share
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal… — Martin Buber Copy Share
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then… — Martin Buber Copy Share
