Explore Quotes by Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

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.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

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

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

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.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

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.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.