"But it can also happen, if will and……" — Martin Buber
"But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself."
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90 Quotes by Martin Buber
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
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To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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