I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.
Martin BuberAbout author
- Author's profession: Philosopher
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: February 8, 1878
- Died: June 13, 1965
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