Jewish philosopher (1878-1965)
The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.
MARTIN BUBER
BBC radio broadcast, 1962
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.
MARTIN BUBER
What is Man?
As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.
MARTIN BUBER
For the Sake of Heaven
In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.
MARTIN BUBER
For the Sake of Heaven
Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
MARTIN BUBER
"Politics and Morality", Be'ayot, April 1945
Through the Thou a person becomes I.
MARTIN BUBER
I and Thou
In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.
MARTIN BUBER
What is Man?
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.
MARTIN BUBER
I and Thou
To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.
MARTIN BUBER
A Land of Two Peoples
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
MARTIN BUBER
I and Thou