Humans Quotes by Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

— 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…

— 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…

— Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter.

— Martin Buber

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

— 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,…

— Martin Buber

In the beginning was the relationship.

— Martin Buber

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

— Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Martin Buber