The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
—Martin Buber
He who loves brings God and the World together.
—Martin Buber
Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.
—Martin Buber
Topics: Stress
Play is the exultation of the possible.
—Martin Buber
Topics: Pleasure, Leisure
Solitude is the place of purification.
—Martin Buber
Topics: Solitude
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.
—Martin Buber
Topics: Power, Love
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