Best Martin Buber Quotations
- As I actualize, I uncover. Actualize
- No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance.… All
- Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.. All
- All actual life is encounter. Actual
- If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman Kills
- To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world… Doe
- Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. Deceived
- We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. Empathy
- Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I… Actual
- One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table… Across
- There is no room for God in him who is full of himself. Full
- God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? Allow
- Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power. Abdicates
- We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. Afflict
- God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? Allow