Martin Buber
Martin Buber
Martin Buberwas an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship. Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, he became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from organizational work in Zionism. In...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 February 1878
CountryGermany
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
All real living is meeting.
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience
One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
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.
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.