Buber, Martin

"Loneliness is the disease of civilization; belonging is the cure."

"To know another is to participate in their becoming."

"The heart of education is the education of the heart."

"Mystery deepens as we approach it with reverence."

"Love demands that we see the wholeness of the other."

"The world speaks to us through those we encounter."

"Real success is becoming fully human in relation to others."

"The primary word I-Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through me, can never take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou."

"All real living is meeting."

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

"In the beginning is the relation."

"Men wish to be confirmed in their being by man, and the human soul wants to be confirmed thus."

"The individual is a fact of existence, but mankind is an idea."

"The eternal Thou can by its nature not be possessed."

"To all questions that I ask in my own name as a being, I receive answers, even if they are not spoken in words."

"Feelings are not facts. Our response to situations can change our experience of them."

"The responsibility of man is to all that lives. It grows with the growth of his consciousness."

"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 emotion of theirs."

"Every man his way—but there is no going astray."

"The false alternative which the strong man and the weak man represent opposes itself with great weight to the idea of humanity."

"Evil is not something substantial, but only a lack of direction in the service of good."

"The world is filled with the utterance of the divine name."

"The life of dialogue is fulfilled not in the individual, but in the genuine meeting of one with another."

"Present is the eternal instant in which God speaks to me."

"So long as a man imagines that he cannot influence his own life, he will not attempt to do so."

"The primary word I-It experiences the world as an object for use and control."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics—but the greatest is the unlived life."

"Spirit is not in the I, but between the I and the Thou."

"Teaching without relation is mere information."

"One can give nothing whatever to another person unless one ceases to clutch it oneself."