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The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
Martin Buber
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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
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Vienna
Austria
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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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I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
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What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.
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The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
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No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.
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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
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One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
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