"Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be…" — Martin Buber

"Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived."

— Martin Buber

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90 Quotes by Martin Buber

Martin Buber has 90 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Solitude is the place of purification.
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the…
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has…
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open…
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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 Deceived Quotes

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest. — Casey Affleck
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. — Sissela Bok
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on… — William Booth
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. — Taylor Caldwell
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,… — Giacomo Casanova
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. — Emile M. Cioran
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure… — Camille Claudel
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the… — Albert Einstein
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. — Benjamin Franklin

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