Martin Buber

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

— Martin Buber

#eyes #great #language #power #speak

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

— Martin Buber

#inspirational

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

— Martin Buber

#man #religion #religion

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

— Martin Buber

#hope #insignt #recovery #redemption #recovery

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? ↗

— Martin Buber

#death

All actual life is encounter. ↗

— Martin Buber

#life

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. ↗

— Martin Buber

#dialog #dialogic #evil #good #i-thou

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it. ↗

— Martin Buber

#cannot #conflict #his #just #man

Solitude is the place of purification. ↗

— Martin Buber

#solitude

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#beings #commands #fulfill #god #his