Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller 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.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

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

Eclipse of the light of heaven eclipse of God such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

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

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

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.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin.

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

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

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

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism the claim that there is no God but rather Gnosticism the claim that God is known.

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

Solitude is the place of purification.

An animals eyes have the power to speak a great language