Martin Buber Quotes
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
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I think teams have tried to do a lot of the same things to us throughout the years. Teams will sag off me and guard the other girls pretty close, so my job is to penetrate and get somebody else an open look, and it's worked for us.
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
