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Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

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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
Philosopher
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Vienna
Austria
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I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.
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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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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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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 true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
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We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world we should love them too.
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The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
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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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When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.
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Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
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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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This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.
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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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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
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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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Play is the exultation of the possible.
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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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Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
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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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