Martin Buber Quotes on Knowledge
Martin Buber was a 20th-century Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish religious thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Martin Buber on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Martin Buber:
“The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.”
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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1955),1995 edition, p. 36 -
“The philosophical anthropologist … can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.”
What is Man? (1938) | p. 148 -
“To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin , this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.”
Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy(1952) | p. 6