1589: Martin Buber Quotes, Meeting the Thou
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
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Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/11/02
What are definitive Martin Buber quotes?
1923: “To man the world is twofold, in accordance with his twofold attitude.”
1923: “Primary words do not signify things, but they intimate relations.”
1923: “The primary word I–Thou can be spoken only with the whole being.”
1923: “The primary word I–It can never be spoken with the whole being.”
1923: “There is no I taken in itself, but only the I of the primary word I–Thou and the I of the primary word I–It.”
1923: “The Thou meets me through grace — it is not found by seeking.”
1923: “I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou.”
1923: “All real living is meeting.”
1923: “The present arises only in virtue of the fact that the Thou becomes present.”
1923: “Love is responsibility of an I for a Thou.”
1923: “In the beginning is relation.”
1923: “Spirit is not in the I, but between I and Thou.”
1923: “Every means is an obstacle. Only when every means has collapsed does the meeting come about.”
1950: “There is something that can only be found in one place. It is a great treasure… The place where this treasure can be found is the place on which one stands.”
1950: “To begin with oneself, but not to end with oneself; to start from oneself, but not to aim at oneself; to comprehend oneself, but not to be preoccupied with oneself.”
1950: “This is the ultimate purpose: to let God in. But we can let him in only where we really stand, where we live, where we live a true life.”
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