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
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who… — 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
He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing… — 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
