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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What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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'What is truth?' is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to 'How to endure life?' And even this one pales beside the next: 'How to endure oneself?' - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer.
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
