Buber, Martin

"To be a person is to be in relation to another person."

"The connection is real and binding, and at the same time the distance is preserved."

"Genuine dialogue is impossible if there is no desire to understand the other."

"Life swings like a pendulum between I and Thou."

"The human person is the pivot of all genuine social life."

"Every Thou eventually becomes It."

"In each encounter, the whole cosmos is contained."

"We cannot love the absent; we can only love the present."

"Community is where one stands in genuine relation with another."

"The deepest question is not what we know but how we know it."

"Existence is not something to be comprehended but something to be lived."

"The person who does not know that there is a You in every human being commits injustice."

"Faith is the soul's venture into the unseen."

"Evil is the exaggeration of a good."

"The I is not real except in relation."

"To create is to encounter the divine."

"The renewal of the world is the task of human beings in community."

"Language is the house of being, and in dialogue, we dwell together."

"There is no I taken in isolation, but only the I of the primary word I-You."

"Between persons something happens that is no less real than physical events."

"The more deeply one enters the world of the Thou, the more one transcends the self."

"Dialogue is the bridge between isolation and fusion."

"Authenticity cannot be feigned; it can only be lived."

"In the face of the Other, I encounter the infinite."

"The sacred dimension of human encounter is often overlooked by modern thought."

"To turn to another with openness is to turn toward the divine."

"The confirmation we seek from others is really self-confirmation through relation."

"In genuine dialogue, both parties are transformed."

"The problem of man is not the problem of evil, but the problem of relation."

"Community cannot be planned; it can only be allowed to happen."