Quote by Martin Buber Download Open image “Through the Thou a person becomes I.” — Martin Buber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really… — Mauric Friedman Copy Share Image
The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“And thou, there has always furthermore in addition inescapably and forever got to be a Thou. Otherwise there is no i because i am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. — Martin Buber Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
