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
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
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
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
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin… — 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
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture 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
