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Martin Buber was a German philosopher known for his profound insights into human relationships. His work 'I and Thou' explored the direct relationship between individuals, which had a profound impact on existentialism and philosophical anthropology.

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Famous 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.”

Whole Able Faces Form Quality Receptive Beholder

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.”

Faces Fire Tradition Camps Pyramids

Author:Martin Buber

“Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.”

Faces Mask Substitutes

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“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.”

Humans I Can Book Faces Doors Surrender Because I Can Human Faces

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“Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.”

Made Book Christian Faces Attitude Ready Bible Something New Unfamiliar New Attitude

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“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.”

Children Past Faces Responsibility Situation Demand Prepared Reactions Spite Be Prepared Similarity Newborn New Faces Newborn Child

Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“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.”

Mean Real Faces Ability Our Lives Mystery Endure Encounters Formulas Spheres Unconditional

Book:Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis

Source: Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis

“The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.”

Ends Facts Faces Religion Historical Tendencies Obscure

Author:Martin Buber

About the Author

Born: February 8, 1878
Died: June 13, 1965
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 152

Books & Sources

I and ThouRelated source material

Between Man and ManRelated source material

Hasidism and modern manRelated source material

Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic SayingsRelated source material

To Hallow this Life: An AnthologyRelated source material

Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of CrisisRelated source material

Tales of the HasidimRelated source material

Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writingsRelated source material

HasidismRelated source material

Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and DialogueRelated source material

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