There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. — 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
Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other,… — 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