“All actual life is encounter.”
Source: I and Thou
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Famous Martin Buber Quotes
“If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman”
Source: To Hallow this Life: An Anthology
“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.”
Source: I and Thou
“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
Source: I and Thou
“Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.”
“There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.”
Source: Martin Buber's Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?”
“Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.”
Source: I and Thou
“The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.”
“The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.”
“We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”
Source: Between Man and Man
Source: I and Thou
“One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.”
Source: Between Man and Man
“We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.”
“Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.”
Source: Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy
Source: Hasidism
Source: I and Thou
Source: Hasidism and modern man
Source: Between Man and Man
“Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.”
Source: Hasidism and modern man
Source: Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”
“I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.”
Source: I and Thou
“When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.”
Source: Hasidism and modern man
“God dwells wherever man lets Him in.”
Source: To Hallow this Life: An Anthology
Source: Hasidism and modern man
Source: Between Man and Man
Source: Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings
Source: Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis