There Are Three Principles In A Man's Being And Life, The Principle Of Thought, The Principle Of Speech, And The Principle Of Action. The Origin Of All Conflict Between Me And My Fellow-men Is That I Do Not Say What I Mean And I Don't Do What I Say.

-Martin Buber

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There Are Three Principles In A Man's

Martin Buber

There Are Three Principles In A Man's Being And Life, The Principle Of Thought, The Principle Of Speech, And The Principle Of Action. The Origin Of All Conflict Between Me And My Fellow-men Is That I Do Not Say What I Mean And I Don't Do What I Say.

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Mean

Men

Principles

But It Can Also Happen, If Will And Grace Are Joined, That As I Contemplate The Tree I Am Drawn Into A Relation, And The Tree Ceases To Be An It. . . . Does The Tree Then Have Consciousness, Similar To Our Own? I Have No Experience Of That. But Thinking That You Have Brought This Off In Your Own Case, Must You Again Divide The Indivisible? What I Encounter Is Neither The Soul Of A Tree Nor A Dryad, But The Tree Itself.

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Tree

Grace