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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

— Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

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All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

I and Thou (1923)

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Encounter with Martin Buber (1972)

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1955)

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

What is Man? (1938)

In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

For The Sake of Heaven (1945)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

They never fail who die
In a great cause.

Lord Byron

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