Buber, Martin

"In authentic relation, we become who we truly are."

"The sacred is found in the ordinary meeting between persons."

"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through embracing of one of its bearers."

"All real living is meeting."

"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again."

"The primary word I-Thou can be spoken only with the whole being."

"Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other."

"The relation to the Thou is direct. No system of ideas, no foreknowledge, and no fancy intervene between me and it."

"Between man and man stands what I must call the bipolar tension of presentness."

"Love is responsibility of an I for a Thou."

"The growth of the self is the awakening of authentic speech."

"Every man born is given one thing: to live his life as a genuine human being."

"Teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No precepts or recipes can suffice the endless variety of human situations."

"A person is made human by their relations with other persons."

"The basis of man's life with man is twofold, and it is one—the wish of every man to be confirmed as what he is, even as what he can become, by men."

"Being and seeming pull in different directions."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every act and every word."

"The more we live as persons, the less we are able to live only for ourselves."

"Real faith means to yield oneself to the unconditional."

"The world is not a riddle to be explained but a mystery to be lived."

"Only the person who believes in the unity of the world can discover its meaning."

"Every genuine conversation is a way of being human together."

"Our responsibility to others begins with listening to them."

"The test of character is what you do when no one is watching."

"You cannot live without encountering the other."

"Truth is not simply what a person thinks it is; it is what a person thinks in relation to another person."

"All education worthy of the name is education of character."

"Imagination is not a talent, it is a capacity to see the whole person."