Quote #23

Solitude is the place of purification.

More from Martin Buber

  1. Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
  2. One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. (From Paths in Utopia)
  3. Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
  4. The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
  5. I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
  6. The ones who count are those persons who- though they may be of little renown- respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the l…
  7. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face lookin…
  8. The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

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