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Martin Buber Inspirational Quotes (81)

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In the beginning was the relationship.
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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which - of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God.
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Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
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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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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
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Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
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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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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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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
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Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164
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God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
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The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.
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The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
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The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.
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The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
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When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
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To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
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We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
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What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.
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