222 Quotes by Martin Buber

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

When I was young, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire people who are kind.

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?

All actual life is encounter.

Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.