When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in… — 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
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
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
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
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber Copy Share
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
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
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. — Martin Buber Copy Share
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal… — Martin Buber Copy Share
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then… — Martin Buber Copy Share
