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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Martin Buber

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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
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The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
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I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
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When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
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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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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
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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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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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We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
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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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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
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Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
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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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In the beginning was the relationship.
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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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The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become becoming I, I say Thou.
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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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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