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
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered… — 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
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