“ The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. Martin Buber
“ But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just in real contact, in real reciprocity with the world in all the points in… Martin Buber
“ When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. Martin Buber
“ 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. Martin Buber
“ The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. Martin Buber
“ But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with… Martin Buber
“ Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed yo… Martin Buber
“ Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer. Martin Buber
“ A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe. Martin Buber