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"How much weight has all erroneous talk about Gods nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others."
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Ich und Du, usually translated as I and Thou, is a book by Martin Buber, published in 1923. It was first translated from German to English in 1937 by Ronald Gregor Smith, with a later translation by Walter Kaufmann being published in 1970. It is Buber's best-known work, setting forth his critique of modern objectification in relationships with others through the contrast between an "I-Thou" and an

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