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One Quotes by Martin Buber
- The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
- To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
- 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…
- One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
- It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away…
- One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
- When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act…
- Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
- There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place…
- One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
- And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
- 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…
- Feeling one "has"; love occurs.
- 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…
- God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
- God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
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