Martin Buber Quotes about Empathy

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

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

Martin Buber

Empathy, Redeemed

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

In the beginning was the relationship.

Martin Buber

Empathy

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.

Martin Buber

Men, Empathy, Wish

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

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber

Empathy, Encounters, Life Is

Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

Martin Buber

Light, Space, Empathy