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
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
God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found. — 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
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and,… — 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
