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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
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Existentialist
Literary Editor
Pedagogue
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Vienna
Austria
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The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).
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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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We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
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The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
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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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There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands
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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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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
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One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
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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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The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
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I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
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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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We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
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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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It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
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The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
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This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.
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Feeling one has love occurs.
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Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
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