The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one’s whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one’s whole being. - Martin Buber

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The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one’s whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one’s whole being.

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About Martin Buber

Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was a Jewish philosopher, theologian, story-teller, and teacher.

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The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain "Religion" and wills to become life. It is concerned in the end not with specific religious acts, but with redemption from all that is specific.
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