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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. — 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

Through the Thou a person becomes I. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. — 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

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine. — Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter. — 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

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring. — Martin Buber

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). — Martin Buber

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. — 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

The future stands in need of you in order to be born. — Martin Buber

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself. — Martin Buber

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. — Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form ... — Martin Buber

It pains me to speak of God in the third person. — 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

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation. — Martin Buber

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity. — Martin Buber

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. — 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

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past. — Martin Buber

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself. — 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