Martin Buber Short Quotes

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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

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Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

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Nature is full of God's utterance, if one but hears it...

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

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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

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Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

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

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

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The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.

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

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

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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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To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover...

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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

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Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

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When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

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We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

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

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

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Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

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

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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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All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

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

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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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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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