Martin Buber Quotes

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. - Martin Buber

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. - Martin Buber

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

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. - Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I. - Martin Buber

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. - Martin Buber

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. - Martin Buber

The one 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. - Martin Buber

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes. - Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification. - Martin Buber

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