Quote #14
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
More from Martin Buber
- A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
- Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God- such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
- Next to being the children of God our greatest privilege is being the brothers of each other.
- God is the mysterium tremendum that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
- Through the Thou a person becomes I.
- God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
- Whoever abhors the name and fancies that he is godless- when he addresses with his whole devoted being the Thou of his life that cannot be …
- How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you- for that is the meani…