Maurice Stanley Friedman

Maurice Stanley Friedman (December 29, 1921 – September 25, 2012) was an interdisciplinary, interreligious philosopher of dialogue. Quotes Today the tempter does not lead the creative man to a high mountain to show him all the kingdoms and splendor of the world, as Satan did to Jesus. Instead he tempts him through infinity — to lose himself in the inessential, to roam about in' the great confusion in which all human clarity and definiteness has ceased. Thus the threat of infinity which Buber experienced as a fifteen-year-old now takes on new form — the form of formlessness, of the whirl of unmastered possibilities which every young person who goes out into the world experiences, but which Buber himself experienced to an overwhelming degree. Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Early Years, 1878–1923 (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981), ch. 3, p. 34 External links