Buber, Martin

"True responsiveness to God means responsiveness to man, to what is human in man."

"Dialogue is the only way to peace."

"Every person born is a new beginning, a different person."

"The I of the primary word I-Thou is a different I than that of the primary word I-It."

"A man never knows what he himself is capable of understanding until he has had a certain relationship with a man."

"The way to come to an understanding with one another is through dialogue."

"One does not live only a private life; one lives in the world and the world lives in him."

"To love is to choose another."

"Where there is justice, there is hope for peace."

"The fundamental fact of the relation of man to man is not struggle, but communion."

"You cannot by any effort make the eternal your object, you can only lift toward it."

"I am convinced that without realizing it, we are living in the most decisive period of human history."

"Real faith does not mean the acceptance of a creed, but that one's whole being should be in tune with the eternal."

"Man can no longer survive in isolation."

"The freedom to do is the freedom to be."

"Only the word that is spoken between men can have meaning."

"Every person is a new world."

"The relation in education is one of pure dialogue."

"What we call personality is not simply what we are, but what we achieve in relation to others."

"The gates of the eternal are open for all who seek."

"One can influence the other not by direct effort but only through genuine relation."

"True love begins where nothing is expected in return."

"Solitude is the place of purification."

"The I-Thou relationship is not partial but total."

"To meet means to stand face to face."

"The eternal Thou can by its very nature not become It."

"Man's role is not to dominate the other but to relate to him."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."

"The human world is built upon I and Thou."

"Education is not the transfer of knowledge but the building of character."