Martin Buber

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

“All actual life is encounter.”

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”

“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.”

“God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.”

“The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.”

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

“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.”

“A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.”

“For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.”

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”