Quotes by Martin Buber

• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
• Through the Thou a person becomes I.
• 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 all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
• The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
• Solitude is the place of purification.
• To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
• 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.
• An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
• Play is the exultation of the possible.
• I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware