“All real living is meeting.”

— Martin Buber , book I and Thou

Variant translationː All actual life is encounter.
Variant: All real life is meeting.
Source: I and Thou (1923)

Original

Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung.

Werke I. Schriften zur Philosophie, S. 85 u. "Das Dialogische Prinzip. Ich und Du", S. 15, 5. Aufl. Heidelberg 1984

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "All real living is meeting." by Martin Buber?

Martin Buber 58

German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878–1965

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Section 1.5
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

“All I want to live in real for once, not just to exist.”

Kazeronnie Mak

Life, Exist, Wisdom

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

Variant: There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Source: Pipefuls

“And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

Source: The Naming

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them…”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then–that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.”

Clive Staples Lewis book Out of the Silent Planet

Hyoi, p. 73 
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Context: A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmān, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The séroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then–that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.

“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”

David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) American ichthyologist and educator

The Voice of the Scholar (San Francisco, 1903), Ch. IX: "The University and the Common Man", p. 190 https://archive.org/stream/voiceofscholarwi00jorduoft#page/190/mode/2up

“Real living is living for others.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

“All real living is meeting.”

Original

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Martin Buber 58

Related quotes

Related topics