Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

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.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.