Martin Buber Quotes

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

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

All actual life is encounter.

A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and thro...

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independe...

All real living is meeting.

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of ...

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

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ...

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

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his ...

But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I do...

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

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the ...

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges b...