--- title: "14 Way Quotes By Martin Buber" description: "14 Way quotes by Martin Buber. Plus more from Martin Buber and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/martin-buber-2381_come_everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-h_2919088.jpg" --- > [Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-his-own-way/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/martin-buber-2381_come_everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-h_2919088.jpg) > [God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/god-made-so-many-different-kinds-of-people-why-would-god-allow-only/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/martin-buber-2381_different_god-made-so-many-different-kinds-of-peop_1957467.jpg) > [You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/you-should-carefully-observe-the-way-toward-which-your-heart-draws/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fe/martin-buber-2381_carefully_you-should-carefully-observe-the-way-tow_2503592.jpg) > [When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/when-a-man-grows-aware-of-a-new-way-in-which-to-serve-god-he-should/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/martin-buber-2381_birth_when-a-man-grows-aware-of-a-new-way-in-w_689998.jpg) > [In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/in-philosophical-anthropology-where-the-subject-is-man-in-his/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e8/martin-buber-2381_anthropology_in-philosophical-anthropology-where-the_379146.jpg) > [Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/religion-means-goal-and-way-politics-implies-end-and-means-the/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/martin-buber-2381_attainment_religion-means-goal-and-way-politics-imp_1095296.jpg) > [If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/if-you-want-to-raise-a-man-from-mud-and-filth-do-not-think-it-is/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/martin-buber-2381_enough_if-you-want-to-raise-a-man-from-mud-and_676553.jpg) > [You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/you-can-rake-the-muck-this-way-rake-the-muck-that-way-it-will-always/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/martin-buber-2381_brooding_you-can-rake-the-muck-this-way-rake-the_38489.jpg) > [I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/i-shall-teach-you-the-best-way-to-say-torah-you-must-cease-to-be/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/martin-buber-2381_best-way_i-shall-teach-you-the-best-way-to-say-to_2260484.jpg) > [You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/you-do-not-attain-to-knowledge-by-remaining-on-the-shore-and-watching/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25f/martin-buber-2381_casts_you-do-not-attain-to-knowledge-by-remain_2759870.jpg) > [Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/feelings-dwell-in-man-but-man-dwells-in-his-love-that-is-no-metaphor/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/232/martin-buber-2381_doe_feelings-dwell-in-man-but-man-dwells-in_1905246.jpg) > [A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/a-story-must-be-told-in-such-a-way-that-it-constitutes-help-in-itself-2/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/martin-buber-2381_done_a-story-must-be-told-in-such-a-way-that_3127635.jpg) > [A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/a-story-must-be-told-in-such-a-way-that-it-constitutes-help-in-itself/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/341/martin-buber-2381_done_a-story-must-be-told-in-such-a-way-that_2968217.jpg) > [Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/since-the-primary-motive-of-the-evil-is-disguise-one-of-the-places-2/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/martin-buber-2381_atheism_since-the-primary-motive-of-the-evil-is_2739371.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Martin Buber > [This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/this-is-the-sacrifice-the-endless-possibility-that-is-offered-up-on/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/mundus-vult-decipi-the-world-wants-to-be-deceived/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/greatness-by-nature-includes-a-power-but-not-a-will-to-power-the/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/you-can-rake-the-muck-this-way-rake-the-muck-that-way-it-will-always/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [All actual life is encounter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/all-actual-life-is-encounter/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/god-cannot-be-seen-but-he-can-listened-to-and-spoken-to/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/what-has-to-be-given-up-is-not-the-i-as-most-mystics-suppose-this-i/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [In the beginning was the relationship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/in-the-beginning-was-the-relationship/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/to-begin-with-oneself-but-not-to-end-with-onself-to-start-from/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/all-journeys-have-secret-destinations-of-which-the-traveller-is/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/the-concept-of-guilt-is-found-most-powerfully-developed-even-in-the/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/this-is-the-eternal-origin-of-art-that-a-human-being-confronts-a-form/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/god-is-the-mysterium-tremendum-that-appears-and-overthrows-but-he-is/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/no-limits-are-set-to-the-ascent-of-man-and-to-each-and-everyone-the/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) > [But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/but-when-a-man-draws-a-lifeless-thing-into-his-passionate-longing-for/) [Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/martin-buber/#itemlist", "name": "14 Way Quotes By Martin Buber", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Buber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-his-own-way/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/martin-buber-2381_come_everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-h_2919088.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/martin-buber-2381_come_everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-h_2919088.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/martin-buber-2381_come_everyone-must-come-out-of-his-exile-in-h_2919088.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.” — Martin Buber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God made so many different kinds of people; 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