Q0196

Martin Buber

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

All real living is meeting.
Thinker Martin Buber
School Existentialism
Source Ich und Du (1923)
Theme Relation
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Ich und Du (1923), within the tradition of Existentialism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of relation, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Martin Buber's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Martin Buber. (n.d.). All real living is meeting. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0196

MLA: Martin Buber. “All real living is meeting..” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0196.

Chicago: Martin Buber. “All real living is meeting..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0196.

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  1. Man becomes an I through a You.

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  1. Self-consciousness attains its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness.
  2. The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.
  3. Better to forget one another in the rivers and lakes than to moisten one another with foam when stranded.
  4. After this we should speak of friendship; for it is a kind of virtue, or involves virtue.
  5. Man becomes an I through a You.

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