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I and Thou by Martin Buber
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it was amazing
bookshelves: psychology-personality

I was assigned this book in college and kept it, because it struck me as so true at the time. The premise is that there can be no self without an other. You can only come into being through your relationships with others. At the time, I was kind of sick and pretty delusional and thought I was very invisible, so it seemed like a good way to look at the world: you can only exist in so far as you build a relationship with others. I think it still holds true to some extent, but not to the degree I once did.

"The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being.
The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being."

"Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation."

"I require a You to become; becoming I, I say You. All actual life is encounter."
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October 21, 2007 – Shelved
October 21, 2007 – Shelved as: psychology-personality

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