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Martin Buber Quotes

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters Picture Quote #1

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons Picture Quote #1

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being Picture Quote #1

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you Picture Quote #1

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Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery Picture Quote #1

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how his teacher used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That’s how to tell a story Picture Quote #1

So long as you have yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things Picture Quote #1

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover Picture Quote #1

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form Picture Quote #1

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form Picture Quote #1

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When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man Picture Quote #1

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment Picture Quote #1

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived Picture Quote #1

All actual life is encounter Picture Quote #1

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power Picture Quote #1

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin Picture Quote #1

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Through the Thou a person becomes I Picture Quote #1

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of it's beings Picture Quote #1

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves Picture Quote #1

As long as the firmament of the you is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals Picture Quote #1

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God Picture Quote #1

All real living is meeting Picture Quote #1

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Solitude is the place of purification Picture Quote #1

Love is responsibility of an I for a you: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Play is the exultation of the possible Picture Quote #1

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself Picture Quote #1

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings Picture Quote #1

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I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters (Martin Buber Quotes) Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons (Martin Buber Quotes) This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being (Martin Buber Quotes) Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning (Martin Buber Quotes) 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 Quotes) In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you (Martin Buber Quotes) Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery (Martin Buber Quotes) A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how his teacher used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That’s how to tell a story (Martin Buber Quotes) So long as you have yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things (Martin Buber Quotes) To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover (Martin Buber Quotes) The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form (Martin Buber Quotes) This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form (Martin Buber Quotes) When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man (Martin Buber Quotes) I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment (Martin Buber Quotes) Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived (Martin Buber Quotes) All actual life is encounter (Martin Buber Quotes) Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power (Martin Buber Quotes) To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin (Martin Buber Quotes) Through the Thou a person becomes I (Martin Buber Quotes) The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of it's beings (Martin Buber Quotes) One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves (Martin Buber Quotes) As long as the firmament of the you is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals (Martin Buber Quotes) The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God (Martin Buber Quotes) All real living is meeting (Martin Buber Quotes) Solitude is the place of purification (Martin Buber Quotes) Love is responsibility of an I for a you: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers (Martin Buber Quotes) 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 (Martin Buber Quotes) Play is the exultation of the possible (Martin Buber Quotes) There is no room for God in him who is full of himself (Martin Buber Quotes) God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings (Martin Buber Quotes)

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