Martin Buber Quotes - Page 3

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• Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

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  Unique, Men, Tasks

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

  Martin Buber

  Order, Needs, Born

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

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  Journey, Secret, Destination

  "The Legend of the Baal-Shem".

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• One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

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  Song, Voice, Soul

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• There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

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  Treasure, May, Found

  Martin Buber (1958). “Hasidism and modern man”, Horizon House Pubs

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• Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

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  Entering, Relation, Persons

  "I and Thou". Book by Martin Buber, 1937.

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• Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

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  Oneself, No Love

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.50, Routledge

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• How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.

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  Life, Men, Order

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.178, eBookIt.com

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• A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

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  Teacher, Rose, Grandfather

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• Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

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  Believe, Wish, World

  Martin Buber (1956). “Writings”

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• What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.

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  Men, Self, Dangerous World

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• God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

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• Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

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  Life, Diction, Power Of Love

  "Power and Love". Poem by Martin Buber, 1926.

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• We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

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  Ocean, Self, Roaring

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• What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

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  Ego, Given, Indispensable

  Rivka Horwitz, Martin Buber (1988). “Buber's way to "I and thou": the development of Martin Buber's thought and his "Religion as presence" lectures”, Jewish Pubn Society

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• Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

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  World, Moses, Said

  Martin Buber (2013). “Tales of the Hasidim”, p.339, Schocken

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• What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

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  Love You, Matter, Faults

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• 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.

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  Mother, Distance, Book

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

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• The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

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  Heart, Joy, Holy

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• Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

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  Ethics, Moral, Currents

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.89, eBookIt.com

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• One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

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  Needs, Sake, My Own

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• Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

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  Attitude, Men, Capable

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• 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.

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  Fusion, Becoming, Accomplished

  "I and Thou". Book by Martin Buber, 1923.

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• No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

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  Men, Choices, Ascent

  Martin Buber (2013). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.41, Routledge

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• It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

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  Tasks, Consecration

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