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.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Solitude is the place of purification.

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

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.