Quote

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

Martin Buber

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Saying
Learn
Whole
Mean
Learning

More quotes by Martin Buber

Image
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.
Martin Buber
Image
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Martin Buber
Image
All actual life is encounter.
Martin Buber
Image
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
Martin Buber
Image
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Martin Buber
Image
The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
Martin Buber
Image
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
Martin Buber
Image
To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
Martin Buber
Image
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
Martin Buber
Image
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
Martin Buber
Image
When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.
Martin Buber
Image
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.
Martin Buber
Image
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
Martin Buber
Image
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
Martin Buber
Image
In the beginning was the relationship.
Martin Buber
Image
God made so many different kinds of people why would God allow only one way to worship?
Martin Buber
Image
Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
Martin Buber
Image
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.
Martin Buber
Image
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.
Martin Buber
Image
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.
Martin Buber