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Conflict
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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.
-Martin Buber
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Experience
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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. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
-Martin Buber
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God
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How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you
-Martin Buber
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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. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? 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.
-Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923
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Life
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All actual life is encounter.
-Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923
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Love
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
-Martin Buber
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People
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The ones who count are those persons who
-Martin Buber
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Power
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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
-Martin Buber
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Propaganda
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The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
-Martin Buber
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Rest, Leisure
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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
-Martin Buber
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World
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
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Books by and about Martin Buber