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Martin Buber - From the Aging category:
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Books category:
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 looking at me. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Creativity category:
Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Discovery category:
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Ego category:
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Form category:
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Pets category:
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Play category:
Play is the exultation of the possible. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Possessions category:
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Risk category:
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Sacrifice category:
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Solitude category:
Solitude is the place of purification. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Travel category:
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. (Martin Buber)
Martin Buber - From the Uniqueness category:
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique and every man or woman's foremost task is the actualization of his or her unique, unprecedented and never recurring possibilities. (Martin Buber)
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