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Quotes from Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy — Martin Buber

1878–1965 Austria

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To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin, this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.

Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy (1952)

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.

Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy (1952)

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