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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.
— Martin Buber
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
— Martin Buber
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.
— Martin Buber
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
— Martin Buber
Play is the exultation of the possible.
— Martin Buber
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
— Martin Buber
The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
— Martin Buber
Through the Thou a person becomes I.
— Martin Buber
Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.
— Martin Buber
He who loves brings God and the World together.
— Martin Buber
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
— Martin Buber
Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
— Martin Buber
Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.
— Martin Buber
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
— Martin Buber
Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
— Martin Buber
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
— Martin Buber
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
— Martin Buber
Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.
— Martin Buber
The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
— Martin Buber
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
— Martin Buber
For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.
— Martin Buber
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
— Martin Buber
One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar. Martin Buber
— Sylvia Shaw Judson
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
— Martin Buber
And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
— Martin Buber
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
— Martin Buber
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.
— Martin Buber
In the beginning was the relationship.
— Martin Buber
On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.
— Martin Buber
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
— Martin Buber
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
— Martin Buber
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
— Martin Buber
Solitude is the place of purification.
— Martin Buber
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
— Martin Buber
One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
— Martin Buber
All real living is meeting.
— Martin Buber
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
— Martin Buber
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.
— Martin Buber
The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
— Martin Buber
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
— Martin Buber
It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
— Martin Buber
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form ...
— Martin Buber
I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
— Martin Buber
Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love.
— Martin Buber
All actual life is encounter.
— Martin Buber
In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
— Martin Buber
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
— Martin Buber
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
— Martin Buber
One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
— Martin Buber
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
— Martin Buber
Feeling one "has"; love occurs.
— Martin Buber
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
— Martin Buber
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.
— Martin Buber
What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.
— Martin Buber
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.
— Martin Buber
Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
— Frances Mayes
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
— Martin Buber
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.
— Martin Buber
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
— Martin Buber
You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.
— Martin Buber
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
— Martin Buber
As I actualize, I uncover.
— Martin Buber
There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
— Martin Buber
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..
— Martin Buber
