Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the… — 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… — 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.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
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
When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among… — 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
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who… — 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
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world. — 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
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
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
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
