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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
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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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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In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.
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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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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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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.
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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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Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
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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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We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
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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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Play is the exultation of the possible.
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