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Men Quotes by Martin Buber
- 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…
- The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
- God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
- How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs…
- For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in…
- The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you…
- When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
- God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
- But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle