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Play is the exultation of the possible.

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Martin Buber
Age: 87 †
Born: 1878
Born: February 8
Died: 1965
Died: June 13
Bible Translator
Educator
Existentialist
Literary Editor
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
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Play
Exultation

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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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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
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There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.
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It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
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So long as you have yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
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I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
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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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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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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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No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
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Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
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If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
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This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
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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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Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.
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In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility it demands you.
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
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All actual life is encounter.
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