222 Quotes by Martin Buber

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully

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

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.