Quote #7

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

More from Martin Buber

  1. Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.
  2. All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
  3. An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
  4. Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human word…
  5. The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
  6. 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 …
  7. All actual life is encounter.
  8. Through the Thou a person becomes I.

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