--- title: "10 Knows Quotes By Martin Buber" description: "10 Knows quotes by Martin Buber. Plus more from Martin Buber and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/martin-buber-2381_chronicles_to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend_1247082.jpg" --- > [To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend-it-conveys-more-truth-than/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/martin-buber-2381_chronicles_to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend_1247082.jpg) > [We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/we-may-listen-to-our-inner-self-and-still-not-know-which-ocean-we/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/martin-buber-2381_inner-self_we-may-listen-to-our-inner-self-and-stil_476801.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dae/martin-buber-2381_doe_to-love-god-truly-one-must-first-love-ma_1287264.jpg) > [One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/one-must-be-truly-able-to-say-i-in-order-to-know-the-mystery-of-the/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/martin-buber-2381_able_one-must-be-truly-able-to-say-i-in-order_2624612.jpg) > [When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/when-a-man-grows-aware-of-a-new-way-in-which-to-serve-god-he-should/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/martin-buber-2381_birth_when-a-man-grows-aware-of-a-new-way-in-w_689998.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/martin-buber-2381_anthropologists_the-philosophical-anthropologist-can-kno_2927189.jpg) > [What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/what-you-must-do-is-love-your-neighbor-as-yourself-there-is-no-one/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/martin-buber-2381_better-than-you_what-you-must-do-is-love-your-neighbor-a_785413.jpg) > [ When we rise out of \[the night\] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/when-we-rise-out-of-the-night-into-the-new-life-and-there-begin-to/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/634/martin-buber-2381_communication_when-we-rise-out-of-the-night-into-the-n_2811827.jpg) > [The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/martin-buber-2381_accepted_the-concept-of-guilt-is-found-most-power_195334.jpg) > [The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/the-biblical-passage-which-says-of-abraham-and-the-three-visiting/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cf/martin-buber-2381_abraham_the-biblical-passage-which-says-of-abrah_1417758.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/martin-buber/#itemlist", "name": "10 Knows Quotes By Martin Buber", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Buber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend-it-conveys-more-truth-than/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/martin-buber-2381_chronicles_to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend_1247082.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/martin-buber-2381_chronicles_to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend_1247082.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/martin-buber-2381_chronicles_to-him-who-knows-how-to-read-the-legend_1247082.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.” — Martin Buber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Buber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/we-may-listen-to-our-inner-self-and-still-not-know-which-ocean-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/martin-buber-2381_inner-self_we-may-listen-to-our-inner-self-and-stil_476801.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/martin-buber-2381_inner-self_we-may-listen-to-our-inner-self-and-stil_476801.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/martin-buber-2381_inner-self_we-may-listen-to-our-inner-self-and-stil_476801.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.” — Martin Buber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To love God truly, one must first love man. 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