222 Quotes by Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

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.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

Solitude is the place of purification.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing