The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain "Religion" and wills to become life. It is concerned in the end not with specific religious acts, but with redemption from all that is specific.


p. 34 - Eclispe of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy (1952)

Martin Buber Quotes

The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain Religion and wills to become life....

The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain Religion and wills to become life....

The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain Religion and wills to become life....

The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain Religion and wills to become life....