You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman — 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
“And how shall we be able to tell whether he is a true zaddik?” The Baal Shem replied. “Ask him to advise… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door… — 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
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
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