There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible… — 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
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a… — 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
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
“The third (sphere in which the world of relation arises): Life with spiritual beings. Here the relations is wrapped in a cloud… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We… — 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
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience — 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
There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of… — 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