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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.

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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Pedagogue
Philosopher
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Vienna
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Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
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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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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven
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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 made so many different kinds of people why would God allow only one way to worship?
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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
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A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).
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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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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.
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Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
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