Quotes from buber martin ii

In philosophical anthropology ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.