Martin Buber

Martin Buber

Philosopher

Martin Buber was a Jewish philosopher known for his work on dialogue and relationships, particularly through his concept of 'I-Thou'.

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Born
February 8, 1878
Died
June 13, 1965
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149
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#353

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"He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man."

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"The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer."

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"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."

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"But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself."

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"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."

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"Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit ."

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"The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth."

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"It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention."

Thinking Opposites Two
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"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."

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"God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!"

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"As I actualize, I uncover."

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"About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate."

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"Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new."

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"It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing."

Tasks Consecration
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"When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth."

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"Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return."

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"What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it."

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"One who truly meets the world goes out also to God."

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