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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

“Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.”

Persons Ego Setting Settings

Author:Martin Buber

“The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.”

Knows Men Persons Doe Philosophical Wholeness Observers Subjectivity Anthropologists

Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.”

Persons Relation Entering

Author:Martin Buber

“It pains me to speak of God in the third person.”

Persons Pain Speak Thirds Third Person

Author:Martin Buber

“Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78”

Ifs World Needs Mean Persons Has Beens Ends Born Unique Originals Narrative Something New Diamond Sober Like Her

Author: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.”

Humans Persons Has Beens Individual Divine Approach Reaching Reaching Beyond

Author:Martin Buber

“Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.”

Men Humans Persons Wish Watches Empathy

Book:Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and Dialogue

Source: Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and Dialogue

“If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman”

Ifs Persons Soul Tree Rabbi

Author:Martin Buber

“The ones 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.”

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Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.”

World Persons Born This World Unique Originals Something New

Book:Hasidism and modern man

Source: Hasidism and modern man

“The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.”

Men World Humans Persons Sports Destiny Divine Divine Destiny

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“Through the Thou a person becomes I.”

Persons

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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