"But divest the Bible of the acting character of God, and it loses its significance, and the concepts of a Platonic or Heraclitean system--concepts born from the observation of reality--are far preferable to the homunculus-like principles of emanation in such an interpretation. What mean, then, are we inteded to find?" #MartinBuber #TheManOfTodayAndTheJewishBible

#WillHerberg #TheWritingsOfMartinBuber p. 247

"Because every [person] is unique, another first [person] enters the world whenever a child is born. By being alive, everyone groping like a child back to the origin of [their] own self, we may experience the fact that there is an origin, that there is creation." #MartinBuber #TheManOfTodayAndTheJewishBible

#TheWritingsOfMartinBuber #WillHerberg p. 248