Atheist Quote by Martin Buber

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

Martin Buber

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Atheist Attics Believer Caught Caught up God image Staring Window

More by Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

Martin Buber

Image

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Martin Buber

Image

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…

Martin Buber

Image

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…

Martin Buber

Image

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber

Image

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

Martin Buber

Image

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,…

Martin Buber

Image

In the beginning was the relationship.

Martin Buber

Image

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

Martin Buber

Image

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Martin Buber

Image

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who…

Martin Buber

Image

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a…

Martin Buber

Image

Explore all 169 Martin Buber quotes

More Atheist quotes

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Image

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

John Hagee

Image

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

Image

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers…

Bertrand Russell

Image

“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like…

J.D. Salinger

Image

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s…

Paul Copan