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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“Tales of the Hasidim (1947), 1991 Ebook edition, p.251, as quoted in Jewish Currents .”
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya? -
“Our Reply" (September 1945), as published in A Land of Two Peoples : Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs (1983) edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, p. 178”
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. -
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1955),1995 edition, p. 36