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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

“This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.”

Giving May Whole Risk Primaries

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.”

Whole Becoming Accomplished Concentration Fusion

Author:Martin Buber

“A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).”

Humans Whole Human Beings Virtue Relation

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“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

Thinking Men Should Whole Happens Belief Grows Existence Accepting Knowledge Learning Awareness Adventure Discovery Absolutes Management Constant Code Willingness Formulas Stakes

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“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.”

Men Want Humans Doe Art Soul Whole Form Human Beings Creative Demand Eternal Deeds Creative Power Figments

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

Should Whole Existence Willingness Stakes

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“One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.”

Knows Whole Able Order Mystery Mindfulness Insight Whole Truth

Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.”

Mean Whole Learning

Author: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”

Men Soul Whole Sin Silence Conflict

Book:Hasidism

Source: Hasidism

“When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.”

Men World Made Whole Able Whole World Making Peace Peace Within

Book:Hasidism and modern man

Source: Hasidism and modern man

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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