Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

— Martin Buber

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the…

— Martin Buber

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have…

— Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter.

— Martin Buber

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

— Martin Buber

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including…

— Martin Buber

In the beginning was the relationship.

— Martin Buber

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

— Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

— Martin Buber

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is…

— Martin Buber

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.…

— 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…

— Martin Buber

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only…

— Martin Buber

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a…

— Martin Buber

Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a…

— Martin Buber

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

— Martin Buber

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

— Martin Buber

God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land…

— Martin Buber

From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God…

— Martin Buber

In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an…

— Martin Buber

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the…

— Martin Buber

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

— Martin Buber

“That I discovered the deed that intends me, that, this movement of my freedom, reveals the mystery to me. But this, too,…

— Martin Buber

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

— Martin Buber