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I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Martin Buber
Thinking, Giving, Atheism
Martin Buber, Judith Buber Agassi (1999). “Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and Dialogue”, p.261, Syracuse University Press

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Martin Buber
Giving, Earth, Quiet
Martin Buber (1958). “Hasidism and modern man”, Horizon House Pubs

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

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

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 the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

Martin Buber
Men, Thinking, Giving
Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which - of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God.

Martin Buber
Night, Names, Giving
Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.17, Routledge

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