"You can rake the muck this way, rake……" — Martin Buber
"You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven"
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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 Brooding Quotes
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world,…
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
— Virginia Woolf
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that…
— Jean Giraudoux
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm,…
— Charles Dickens
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In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and…
— George Washington Carver
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The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.
— Yosa Buson
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Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential…
— Charlie Pierce
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Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness…
— Jane Frances de Chantal
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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
— Dorothy Uhnak
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
— E. M. Forster
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in…
— Walter de La Mare
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