List of Martin Buber Quotes

As Long As The Firmament Of The You Is Spread Over Me, The Tempests Of Causality Cower At My Heels, And Whirl Of Doom Congeals.

When We Rise Out Of [the Night] Into The New Life And There Begin To Receive The Signs, What Can We Know Of That Which - Of Him Who Gives Them To Us? Only What We Experience From Time To Time From The Signs Themselves. If We Name The Speaker Of This Speech God, Then It Is Always The God Of A Moment, A Moment God.

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.

This Is The Sacrifice: The Endless Possibility That Is Offered Up On The Altar Of The Form.

To Look Away From The World, Or To Stare At It, Does Not Help A Man To Reach God; But He Who Sees The World In Him Stands In His Presence.

The Prophet Is Appointed To Oppose The Kind, And Even More: History.

Creation Is Not A Hurdle On The Road To God, It Is The Road Itself.

But When A Man Draws A Lifeless Thing Into His Passionate Longing For Dialogue, Lending It Independence And As It Were A Soul, Then There May Dawn In Him The Presentiment Of A World-wide Dialogue With The World-happening That Steps Up To Him Even In His Environment, Which Consists Partially Of Things. Or Do You Seriously Think That The Giving And Taking Of Signs Halts On The Threshold Of That Business Where An Honest And Open Spirit Is Found?

The Tradition Of The Camp Fire Faces That Of The Pyramid.

In Philosophical Anthropology, ... Where The Subject Is Man In His Wholeness, The Investigator Cannot Content Himself, As In Anthropology As An Individual Science, With Considering Man As Another Part Of Nature And With Ignoring The Fact That He, The Investigator, Is Himself A Man And Experiences This Humanity In His Inner Experience In A Way That He Simply Cannot Experience Any Part Of Nature.

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.

The I Of The Basic Word I-thou Is Different From That Of The Basic Word I-it.