Martin Buber Quotes About Quality

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

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  Martin Buber

  Martin Buber (1997). “Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis”, p.142, Syracuse University Press

  1918

• When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

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  Martin Buber

  1819

• The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

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  Martin Buber

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.16, A&C Black

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