God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image