If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and… — 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 biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where… — 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
About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as… — 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
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
Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and… — 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
If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a… — 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