The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God… — 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
