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

All actual life is encounter.

— Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

— Martin Buber

All real living is meeting.

— Martin Buber

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

— 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 which the world can meet man.

— 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 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

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

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

— 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