Martin Buber quotes Born: 02/08/1878 Died: 06/13/1965 Country: israel

• Leisure is the exultation of the possible. (Martin Buber) [leisure]
• 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. (Martin Buber) [power/love]
• When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. (Martin Buber) [people/god]
• The one 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. (Martin Buber) [spirit]
• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. (Martin Buber)
• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. (Martin Buber)
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. (Martin Buber)
• An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. (Martin Buber)
• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it. (Martin Buber)
• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. (Martin Buber)
• 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. (Martin Buber)
• Play is the exultation of the possible. (Martin Buber)
• Solitude is the place of purification. (Martin Buber)
• The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes. (Martin Buber)
• There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. (Martin Buber)
• Through the Thou a person becomes I. (Martin Buber)
• To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. (Martin Buber)

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