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title: "12 Doe Quotes By Martin Buber"
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> [The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/the-salvation-of-man-does-not-lie-in-his-holding-himself-far-removed/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/the-philosophical-anthropologist-can-know-the-wholeness-of-the-person/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/to-love-god-truly-one-must-first-love-man-and-if-anyone-tells-you/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/everything-depends-on-inner-change-when-this-has-taken-place-then-and/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/to-look-away-from-the-world-or-to-stare-at-it-does-not-help-a-man-to/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/one-should-hallow-all-that-one-does-in-one-s-natural-life-one-eats-in/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/this-is-the-eternal-origin-of-art-that-a-human-being-confronts-a-form/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/feelings-dwell-in-man-but-man-dwells-in-his-love-that-is-no-metaphor/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/he-who-desires-to-become-aware-of-the-hidden-light-must-lift-the/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/from-my-youth-onwards-i-have-found-in-jesus-my-great-brother-that/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/when-i-confront-a-human-being-as-my-thou-and-speak-the-basic-word-i/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/but-it-can-also-happen-if-will-and-grace-are-joined-that-as-i/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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## Other authors on Doe

## More by Martin Buber

> [This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/this-is-the-sacrifice-the-endless-possibility-that-is-offered-up-on/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/mundus-vult-decipi-the-world-wants-to-be-deceived/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/greatness-by-nature-includes-a-power-but-not-a-will-to-power-the/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/you-can-rake-the-muck-this-way-rake-the-muck-that-way-it-will-always/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [All actual life is encounter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/all-actual-life-is-encounter/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/god-cannot-be-seen-but-he-can-listened-to-and-spoken-to/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/what-has-to-be-given-up-is-not-the-i-as-most-mystics-suppose-this-i/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [In the beginning was the relationship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/in-the-beginning-was-the-relationship/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/to-begin-with-oneself-but-not-to-end-with-onself-to-start-from/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/all-journeys-have-secret-destinations-of-which-the-traveller-is/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/the-concept-of-guilt-is-found-most-powerfully-developed-even-in-the/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/this-is-the-eternal-origin-of-art-that-a-human-being-confronts-a-form/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/god-is-the-mysterium-tremendum-that-appears-and-overthrows-but-he-is/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/no-limits-are-set-to-the-ascent-of-man-and-to-each-and-everyone-the/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

> [But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/but-when-a-man-draws-a-lifeless-thing-into-his-passionate-longing-for/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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