Top 100 Rudolf's Quotes
#1. While Cabinets of Curiosities were intended to be microcosms of the world, and to symbolise a ruler's all-powerful control of his realm, Rudolf's came to mean much more than that. It become his refuge from personal and political turmoil, a private universe he could control.
Joanne Owen
#2. Like the small flame of a match to a cigarette, Rudolf's fury lit the crumpled edge of his German soul.
Geraldine Birch
#3. In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.
Rudolf Steiner
#4. I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera ... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.
Rudolf Bing
#5. The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don't ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror.
Rudolf G. Binding
#6. I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.
Rudolf Spielmann
#7. Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.
Rudolf Leuckart
#8. A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Rudolf Arnheim
#9. Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.
Rudolf Steiner
#10. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.
Rudolf Arnheim
#11. These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
#12. Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim
#13. For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
Rudolf Nureyev
#14. If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
Rudolf Virchow
#15. 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."
Rudolf Steiner
#16. Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.
Rudolf Rocker
#17. When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
Rudolf Steiner
#18. All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.
Rudolf Steiner
#20. The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.
[Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862]
Rudolf Clausius
#21. I am still on stage. If you read Press ... you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!
Rudolf Nureyev
#22. Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.
Rudolf Hoss
#23. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#24. I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.
Rudolf Nureyev
#25. Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
Rudolf Steiner
#26. The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.
Rudolf Steiner
#27. We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature
Rudolf Spielmann
#28. The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.
Rudolf Hess
#29. Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
Rudolf Steiner
#30. Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
[Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]
Rudolf Carnap
#31. Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
Rudolf Arnheim
#32. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#33. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#34. In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
#35. The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing
#36. The remote valley of Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in Kenya is now one of the world's most productive sites for early human remains,
Bill Bryson
#37. I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.
Rudolf Bing
#38. Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#39. Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.
Rudolf Arnheim
#40. But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto
#41. It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.
Hilary Putnam
#42. Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Rudolf Hess
#43. His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.
{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}
Josiah Willard Gibbs
#44. Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Rudolf Otto
#45. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#46. 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
Rudolf Steiner
#47. Songwriting is my true passion and that's what the BMI awards are all about.
Kevin Rudolf
#48. The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
Rudolf Arnheim
#49. Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,
Rudolf Rocker
#50. In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
Rudolf Steiner
#51. History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.
Rudolf Hess
#52. A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Rudolf Nureyev
#54. Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
Rudolf Steiner
#57. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#58. Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
Rudolf Hiferding
#59. Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
#60. I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.
Jennifer Aniston
#61. Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
Rudolf Virchow
#62. Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
Rudolf Arnheim
#63. The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
Rudolf Arnheim
#64. Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#65. Oh how nice!" the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice & all. "I must tell Ernest we met," she said. "May I ask your name, dear?"
"Rudolf Schmidt," I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole life history. Rudolf Schmidt was the name of the janitor of our dorm.
J.D. Salinger
#66. We can change our whole life and attitude of the people around us simply by changing ourselves..
Rudolf Dreikurs
#67. Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
Rudolf Carnap
#68. Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
Rudolf Virchow
#70. The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
Rudolf Diesel
#71. Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate
Rudolf Hess
#72. Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
Rudolf Virchow
#73. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#74. When the forms of an old culture are dying,
the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.
Rudolf Bahro
#75. When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
Rudolf Nureyev
#76. Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.
Rudolf G. Binding
#78. We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.
Rudolf Bultmann
#79. Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Ray Davies
#80. Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.
Rudolf Hess
#81. The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.
Rudolf Arnheim
#82. It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself
which is what they are most needed for.
Rudolf Arnheim
#83. The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.
Rudolf Diesel
#84. To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
Rudolf Otto
#86. The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat.
1. The energy of the universe is constant.
2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
Rudolf Clausius
#87. There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
Rudolf Virchow
#88. Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
Bob Dylan
#89. For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
Rudolf Steiner
#90. Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling.
Rudolf Rocker
#91. Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.
Franz Kafka
#92. It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives
Rudolf Steiner
#93. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#94. I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt
Kate Williams
#95. In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
Rudolf Arnheim
#96. Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
Rudolf Steiner
#97. It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
Rudolf Hiferding
#98. 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.
Rudolf Steiner
#99. For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
Walter Rudolf Hess
#100. 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?
Rudolf Steiner
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