Martin Buber citáty

„Človek sa pri "ty" mení na "ja".“

„Každý je povolaný, aby vo svete priviedol niečo k dokonalosti.“

„Láska znamená cítiť sa byť zodpovedným za druhého.“

„Úspech nie je meno Boha.“

„Byť starým je nádherná vec, pokiaľ sa človek ešte neodnaučil znovu začínať.“

„Základné slová neoznačujú veci, ale vzťahy. Základné slovo ja - ty možno povedať len celou bytosťou. Každý prostriedok je prekážkou. Až tam, kde sa rúcajú všetky prostriedky, dochádza k stretnutiu.“

„City len sprevádzajú metafyzický a metapsychický fakt vzťahu, ktorý sa predsa neuskutočňuje v duši, ale medzi ja a ty.“

„Človek je človekom, pokiaľ má vzťah k človeku. Duch nie je v človeku, ale medzi ja a ty.“

„Predĺžené línie medziľudských vzťahov sa prelínajú vo večnom Ty.“

„Vnútorná štruktúra ľudského spolunažívania sa môže obnoviť iba tým, že sa vzťahy človeka k človeku, skupiny k skupine a národa k národu stanú novými a rýdzimi.“

„Pôvod všetkých konfliktov medzi mnou a mojimi ľuďmi je, že nehovorím, čo mienim, a že nerobím, čo hovorím.“

„Všetci ľudia majú prístup k Bohu, ale každý nejaký iný.“

„Boh obsahuje vesmír, ale ním nie je. Takisto Boh napĺňa základ mojej bytosti, ale ním nie je. Preto existuje ja a ty, existuje rozhovor, reč, duch, praktizovaný rečou. Vzhľadom na túto skutočnosť naveky jestvuje Slovo.“

„Boh prebýva tam, kam ho vpustíme.“

„Viera je bezpodmienečná dôvera.“

„Viera je schopnosť ísť v Božom tempe.“

“All real living is meeting.”

“Solitude is the place of purification.”

“The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.”

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

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

“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.”

“Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable.”

“Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.”

“The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and of me.”

“Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way.”

“For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others.”

“The Thou encounters me by grace — it cannot be found by seeking.”

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life.”

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

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

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

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

“We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.”

“Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?”

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

“Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.”

“Play is the exultation of the possible.”

“All actual life is encounter.”

“Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”

“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”

“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.”

“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.”

“The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.”

“Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.”