Top 100 Rudolf Steiner Quotes
#1. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.
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#3. Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education.
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#4. Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
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#5. A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert ... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?
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#6. Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
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#7. Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
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#8. He remembers that it was said to him, "Our ancestors were animal forms." But he does not remember that these forms were gods. This is the psychological basis for the emergence of Darwinism.
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#9. For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
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#10. Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
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#11. Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.
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#12. All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.
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#13. When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
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#14. It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground ... A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."
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#15. In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.
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#16. Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.
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#18. In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's evolution and to at its human stage of development
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#19. You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it ... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin ... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.
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#20. The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.
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#21. Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.
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#22. If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.
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#23. When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other ...
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#24. A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
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#25. We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
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#26. The myth says that Osiris was cut into fourteen pieces and was buried in fourteen graves. Here in this profound myth we have a wonderful reference to the cosmic event. The fourteen aspects of the moon are the fourteen pieces of the dismembered Osiris. 10 The complete Osiris is the whole moon-disk.
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#27. We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.
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#28. The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars!
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#29. To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
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#30. The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.
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#31. The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
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#32. The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer ...
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#33. That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
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#34. The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
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#35. Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
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#36. The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
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#37. Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.
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#38. When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
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#39. The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.
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#40. Matter is never without Spirit. Spirit is never without Matter.
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#41. The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
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#42. Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
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#43. If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.
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#44. In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
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#45. When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
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#46. Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
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#47. For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.
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#48. For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
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#49. There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.
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#50. When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.
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#51. Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.
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#52. Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that ... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
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#53. A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
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#54. Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.
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#55. Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
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#57. I ask you to write this deeply into your souls ... the materialistic culture ... is now on the way to its close.
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#58. The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.
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#59. Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.
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#60. Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.
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#61. The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.
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#62. We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
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#63. You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
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#64. Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
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#65. The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
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#66. Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the "moral" Sun of the world.
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#67. Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos ...
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#68. The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple.
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#69. Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
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#70. It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.
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#71. Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.
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#72. Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.
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#73. Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.
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#74. Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.
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#75. Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
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#76. Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
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#77. We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word.
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#78. If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
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#79. What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
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#80. You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
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#81. Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.
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#82. All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
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#83. To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.
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#84. Little is accomplished if one tries to understand these words theoretically. Much more can be gained when one creates sacred moments in life when one is willing to energetically fill one's soul with the living content of such words.
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#85. Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.
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#86. For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.
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#87. If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
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#88. When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.
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#89. When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
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#90. It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.
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#91. You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.
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#92. We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.
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#93. Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
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#94. All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
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#95. Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.
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#96. Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
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#97. When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
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#98. In an epoch of criticism ideals are lowered; other feelings take the place of veneration, respect, adoration, and wonder. Our own age thrusts these feelings further and further into the background, so that they can only be conveyed to man through his every-day life in a very small degree.
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#99. If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.
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#100. Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
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