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• Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

  Martin Buber

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Tree, After Hours

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

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  Men, World, Able

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.

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  Lying, First Love, Men

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• Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

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  Faces, Mask, Substitutes

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• To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

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  Aging, Glorious, Ifs

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• Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

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  Ego, Persons, Settings

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• We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

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  Learning, Mean, Whole

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• You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

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  Heart, Way, Should

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• Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

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  Life, Morning, Reality

  "Power and Love". Poem by Martin Buber, 1926.

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• We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

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  Should, Stakes, Existence

  "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.

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• He who loves brings God and the World together.

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  Together, World

  Martin Buber (2013). “On Judaism”, p.212, Schocken

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• I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

  Martin Buber

  Religion, Found, Glad

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

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  Way, Exile

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• When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

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  Men, Atheism, Opinion

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• God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

  Martin Buber

  Men

  Martin Buber (1958). “To Hallow this Life: An Anthology”

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• The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

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  Historical, Religion, Faces

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• One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

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  Tree, Clubs, Littles

  Martin Buber, S. N. Eisenstadt (1992). “On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

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  Empathy, Redeemed

  Martin Buber (2013). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.64, Routledge

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• Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

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  Men, Empathy, Wish

  Martin Buber, Judith Buber Agassi (1999). “Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and Dialogue”, p.16, Syracuse University Press

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• Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

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  Entering, Relation, Persons

  "I and Thou". Book by Martin Buber, 1937.

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• Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

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  Latin, World, Want

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.12, eBookIt.com

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• To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

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  Ends, Aim, Oneself

  Martin Buber (1958). “Hasidism and modern man”, Horizon House Pubs

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

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  Journey, Secret, Destination

  "The Legend of the Baal-Shem".

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• Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

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  Unique, Men, Tasks

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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