Best Martin Buber Sayings
- The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there… Apt
- A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell… Asked
- To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... Discover
- What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which… Always Presupposes
- The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it… Able
- What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting,… Affirmation
- This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of… Gives
- This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... Altar
- One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. Been
- As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals. Causality
- Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in… Been
- Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why… Ask
- Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way. Everyone
- The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. Capitalism
- When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… Among
- The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. Atheist
- I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As… Absolute
- All real living is meeting. All
- And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision. Came
- You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned?… Brooding
- When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. Authentically
- Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it… Achieved
- Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully… Allows
- Feeling one "has"; love occurs. Empathy
- This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment… Appears