"Every man's foremost task is the actualization of……" — Martin Buber
"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 even the greatest, has already achieved."
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90 Quotes by Martin Buber
Martin Buber has 90 quotes on this site.
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Solitude is the place of purification.
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the…
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
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A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has…
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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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Play is the exultation of the possible.
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open…
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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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There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still…
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More Achieved Quotes
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We…
— Abu Abbas
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who…
— David Baldacci
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
— Dave Barry
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Barton
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
— Victoria Beckham
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
— Usain Bolt
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