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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.
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No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.
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One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
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Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.
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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
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To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin, this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
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Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
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The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: … the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.
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The philosophical anthropologist … can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.
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The Thou encounters me by grace — it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.
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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
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The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and of me.
Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning — we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.
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One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
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In philosophical anthropology, … where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.
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You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.
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In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.
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So long as you have yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
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Whoever abhors the name and fancies that he is godless — when he addresses with his whole devoted being the Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other, he addresses God.
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Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way. Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
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Born:
February 8, 1878
Died:
June 13, 1965
(aged 87)
Bio:
Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I Thou relationship and the I It relationship.
Known for:
I and Thou
Between Man and Man (1948)
Hasidism (1948)
Zwei Glaubensweisen (1950)
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