Buber

1 He gave Chris Long, whose locker was now next to his, his copy of Martin Buber’s “Good and Evil.”

2 Anticipating that the high court would validate the death sentence, Buber approached the prime minister at a session of the study group and asked if they could meet so that he could argue for clemency.

3 Everything is, as Martin Buber put it, a “you,” rather than an “it.”

4 What twentieth-century Judaism needed, Buber believed, was to find inspiration in the moments of its history when the divine spoke directly to the people.

5 As an antidote for all this, I’ve been reading the work of Martin Buber, the early 20th century Jewish theologian who dedicated his career to understanding deep intimacy.

6 “When Martin Luther King Jr. first became familiar with Buber,” Professor Mendes-Flohr added, “it would almost certainly have been through Friedman’s work.”

7 The Ten Portraits of Jews series includes Sarah Bernhardt and Martin Buber, while Endangered Species includes the bighorn ram and the Siberian tiger.

8 This timing of these layoff is advantageous since the “stigma around the layoffs has been removed,” ZipRecruiter’s Buber said.

9 In the 1950s, his English translations of Buber’s essays from the original German made many of them available in the United States for the first time.

10 By the age of thirty, then, Buber was a leading figure among what Mendes-Flohr calls the “nonacademic literati”— he was what we might call a public intellectual.

11 Peace becomes possible when we are fully present for one another’s pain; when, in the words of Martin Buber, we encounter one another as a “thou.”

12 He wrote: “Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an “I-it” relationship for an “I-thou” relationship, and ends up relegating persons to the status of things.”

13 Kass says one of his greatest influences was the work of philosopher Martin Buber, who believed God could be found every day in human interactions.

14 The conference rooms inside are named after moral philosophers: Immanuel Kant, Gandhi, Martin Buber.

15 Since the pandemic started, “the link between hard work and reward has been broken” for many workers, Buber said, resulting in “curbed ambition.”

16 He paraphrased the philosopher Martin Buber: “All meaning is in meeting.”

17 Such communities usually began, Buber wrote, with some sacred Thou moment — like the Exodus story for the Jews or the revolutionary struggles of the early Americans.

18 The book, “Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue,” marked the first effort to explain and popularize the humanistic and religious concepts Buber intermarried in his often abstruse work.

19 I blended Catholicism with borrowed insights from Sartre and Zen and Buber and Miltonic Protestantism.

20 Gefter has drawn inspiration from diverse sources, including Wheeler and philosopher Martin Buber, author of the classic work I and Thou.

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