Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

"19 Martin Buber Quotes & Sayings

      Austrian     /     View profile
Born: 8 February 1878. Died: 13 June 1965 | Philosopher |

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware

All journeys Secret destinations
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

People relate Authentically Humanly God
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

The atheist Nearer To God Believer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

Be redeemed Extent See ourselves
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

Everyone must Come out Exile
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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.

Using power Compulsion World Cautious
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

The world Comprehensible Embraceable
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Solitude is the place of purification.

Solitude Place Purification
  Favorite Make wallpaper

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

Devil Against God Eternity No decision
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Look away World Reach God
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

Love Responsibility Consist Feeling
  Favorite Make wallpaper
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
Nature Expect Turned Club
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Identified With love Real outgoing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

Have something Stands In relation
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

Nothing Doom man Belief Movement
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

God Want Believe in Defended
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

Possible relationship God Address
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

Manifold Frightening Prefer How many
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Martin Buber Quotes & Sayings