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Martin Buber

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


— Martin Buber


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


— Martin Buber


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


— Martin Buber


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


— Martin Buber


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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.


— Martin Buber


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Play is the exultation of the possible.


— Martin Buber


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Through the Thou a person becomes I.


— Martin Buber


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


— Martin Buber


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Brit Shalom and the bi-national solution
Already in the early 1920s Martin Buber started advocating a binational Jewish-Arab state stating that the Jewish people should proclaim "its desire to live in peace and brotherhood with the Arab people and to develop the common homeland into a republic in which both peoples will have the possibility of free development". Partners can then become empathic witnesses to each others wounds and early unmet needs. In 1952 he argued with Jung over the existence of God.

They had two children: a son Rafael Buber and a daughter Eva Strauss-Steinitz. In 1923 Buber wrote his famous essay on existence Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou) and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.

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