This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world. — 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
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience — 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