"It is only when reality is turned into logic, and A and non-A dare no longer dwell together, that we get determinism and indeterminism, a doctrine of presdestination and a doctrine of freedom, each excluding the other." #MartinBuber #TheFaithofJudaism

#WillHerberg #TheWritingsOfMartinBuber p. 256

"But the unification [𝒀𝒊𝒉𝒖𝒅] is brought about not to spite these [monstrous] contradictions [of life], but in a spirit of love and reconciliation; not by the mere profession of unification, but by the fulfilment of the professions. Therefore, the unification is contained in no pantheistic theorem but in the reality of the impossible, in translating the image into actuality, in the 𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐 𝑫𝒆𝒊" #MartinBuber #TheFaithofJudaism

#WillHerberg #TheWritingsOfMartinBuber p. 255

"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