Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 8, 1878 Death: June 13, 1965
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else..
Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in ….
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them..
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment..
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change..
Solitude is the place of purification..
All real living is meeting..
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God..
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons..
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived..
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..
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred..
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware..
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin..
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 hu….
In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It ….
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda..
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 a….
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)..
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we gr….
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?.