Quote #26
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 living spirit.
More from Martin Buber
- The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
- The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
- 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)
- The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
- Solitude is the place of purification.
- The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
- Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
- The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.