Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Philosophers -- Martin Buber
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Martin Buber, 1878-1965. Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Judaic scholar and philosopher whose influential I and Thou posits a direct personal dialogue between God and the individual.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
There is genuine dialogue - no matter whether spoken or silent - where each of the participants really has in mind the other or others in their present and particular being and turns to them with the intention of establishing a living mutual relation between himself and them. There is technical dialogue, which is prompted solely by the need of objective understanding. And there is monologue disguised as dialogue, in which two or men, meeting in space, speak each with himself in strangely tortuous and circuitous ways and yet imagine they have escaped the torment of being thrown back on their own resources.
Each of us is encased in an armour which we soon, out of familiarity, cease to notice. There are only moments which penetrate it and stir the soul to sensibility.
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