Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.