Martin Buber Quotes About Dialogue

Quotes about: Dialogue

• Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

  Martin Buber

  Humanity, Encounters, Hours

• I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

  Martin Buber

  Learning, Knowledge, Reality

• 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?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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