Martin Buber Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

  Martin Buber

  Bible, Christian, Attitude

• Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. 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 being looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Mother, Distance, Book

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

• 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.

  Martin Buber

  Book, Doors, Faces

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