Buber, Martin

"In every meeting, the whole world is present."

"The community that truly exists is not the multitude but the fellowship."

"One cannot live only with the It; one must live with Thou."

"The redemption of the world is only possible when we see each other as Thou."

"A person is not a thing and cannot be treated as a thing."

"The word of love is answered only by the word of love."

"True leadership is the capacity to awaken in others their own sense of worth."

"In every genuine dialogue, both persons are changed."

"The ethical is a dialogue between self and other."

"Man is not a part of nature; he stands in relation to nature."

"Courage is the capacity to act in the face of the unknown."

"The work of man is not to understand the world but to change it."

"Where dialogue is impossible, violence becomes inevitable."

"Faith is not what we believe but how we live."

"The beauty of the world lies in its particularity."

"Man must choose to be either a subject or an object in his relations with others."

"Real meeting changes those who meet."

"The eternal is found not in abstract ideas but in lived experience."

"Love is the bridge between two souls."

"In the dialogue between man and God, both are called to respond."

"The person becomes fully human only through relation with others."

"Every genuine encounter is an event."

"Truth is not a possession but a presence."

"The I-Thou relation is eternal; the I-It relation is temporal."

"Community grows from the capacity for genuine dialogue."

"In the Thou we find ourselves."

"The word must be lived to be true."

"Hope is the conviction that all is not lost."

"Man is responsible not for the world but to the world."

"The future belongs to those who can dialogue."