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I and Thou
Martin Buber
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All real living is meeting.”
“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..”
“Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.”
“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision. ”
“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.”
“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”
“Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.”
“Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..”
“No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.”
“Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.”
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Book Keywords:
love, relationship, human-connection