Quotes of Martin Buber - somelinesforyou

“ Solitude is the place of purification. ”

- Martin Buber

“ All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Solitude is the place of purification. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Solitude is the place of purification. ”

- 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

“ All actual life is encounter. ”

- Martin Buber

“ We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Play is the exultation of the possible. ”

- 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

“ Solitude is the place of purification. ”

- Martin Buber

“ The ones who count are those persons who, though they may be of little renown, respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit. ”

- Martin Buber

“ An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Each action can be the one on which all depends; what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what hd been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment… ”

- 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 real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. ”

- Martin Buber

“ The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. ”

- Martin Buber

“ We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized. ”

- Martin Buber

“ The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ”

- Martin Buber

“ The ones who count are those persons who, though they may be of little renown, respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Solitude is the place of purification. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Every true deed is a loving deed. All true deeds rise from contact with a beloved thing and flow into universe. Any true deed brings, out of lived unity, unity into the world. Unity is not a property of the world, but its task. To form unity out of the world is our never-ending work. ”

- Martin Buber

“ We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. ”

- Martin Buber

“ Each action can be the one on which all depends; what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what hd been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment… ”

- Martin Buber

“ An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ”

- 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

“ We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. ”

- Martin Buber

“ 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
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