Martin Buber Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Martin Buber
Martin Buber Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Martin Buber on Wise Famous Quotes.
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being.
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.
For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me
It was from Buber's other writings that I learned what could also be found in I and Thou: the central commandment to make the secular sacred.
And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar.
On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now - or, as Buber puts it, in the present.
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..