Martin Buber Quotes

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• Solitude is the place of purification.
• There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin…
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
• Play is the exultation of the possible.
• I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see…
• An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
• The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
• To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
• There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit…
• But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the…
• Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.
• Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
• The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
• From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has…
• The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
• In the beginning was the relationship.
• One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

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