All Actual Life Is Encounter.

You Do Not Attain To Knowledge By Remaining On The Shore And Watching The Foaming Waves, You Must Make The Venture And Cast Yourself In, You Must Swim, Alert And With All Your Force, Even If A Moment Comes When You Think You Are Losing Consciousness; In This Way, And In No Other, Do You Reach Anthropological Insight.

Greatness By Nature Includes A Power, But Not A Will To Power. ... The Great Man, Whether We Comprehend Him In The Most Intense Activity Of His Work Or In The Restful Equipoise Of His Forces , Is Powerful, Involuntarily And Composedly Powerful, But He Is Not Avid For Power. What He Is Avid For Is The Realization Of What He Has In Mind , The Incarnation Of The Spirit .

One Must Be Truly Able To Say I In Order To Know The Mystery Of The Thou In Its Whole Truth.

Every Person Born Into The World Represents Something New, Something That Never Existed Before, Something Original And Unique....if There Had Been Someone Like Her In The World, There Would Have Been No Need For Her To Be Born." --martin Buber As Quoted In Narrative Means For Sober Ends, By Jon Diamond, P.78

Here Is The Infallible Test. Imagine Yourself In A Situation Where You Are Alone, Wholly Alone On Earth, And You Are Offered One Of The Two, Books Or Men. I Often Hear Men Prizing Their Solitude But That Is Only Because There Are Still Men Somewhere On Earth Even Though In The Far Distance. I Knew Nothing Of Books When I Came Forth From The Womb Of My Mother, And I Shall Die Without Books, With Another Human Hand In My Own. I Do, Indeed, Close My Door At Times And Surrender Myself To A Book, But Only Because I Can Open The Door Again And See A Human Being Looking At Me.