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Rudolf Steiner
18 quotes
“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live through deeds of love, and let others live understanding their unique intentions: this is the fundamental principle of free human beings.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only to the extent that a man has emancipated himself...from all that is generic, does he count as a free spirit within a human community. No man is all genus, none is all individuality.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. 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.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each individual is a species unto him/herself.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos (1904)
“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts (1924)
“Goethe's thinking was mobile. It followed the whole growth process of the plant and followed how one plant form is a modification of the other. Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. Thereby his concepts became, if I may put it this way, intimately adapted to the process that plant nature itself goes through.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture from August 30, 1921, trans. Craig Holdrege
“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.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who judge human beings according to generic characteristics only reach the boundary, beyond which people begin to be beings whose activity is based on free self-determination....Characteristics of race, tribe, ethnic group and gender are subjects for special sciences....But all these sciences cannot penetrate through to the special nature of the individual. Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path. A Philosophy of Freedom (GA 4), Hudson (1894)/1995.
“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 (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the second part of Faust, Goethe puts the following words into the mouth of a seeress: “Him I love who craves the impossible,” and Goethe himself, in his “Prose Proverbs,” says: “To live in the idea means treating the impossible as though 't were possible.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Outline of Occult Science, p. 310, (1922)
“Everything which the ego is able to unfold within itself must give birth to love. The all-embracing archetype of love is set forth in the revelation of... the Christ Mystery. Through Him the germ of love is planted in the innermost core of the human being; and from this starting-point it must flow through the whole of evolution. Just as the wisdom previously formed manifests in the forces of the earthly sense-world, in the “elementary forces” of to-day, so love itself will manifest in the future, in all phenomena, as the new “elementary force.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Outline of Occult Science, p. 401, (1922)
“We shall not set up demands nor programmes, but simply describe the child-nature. (...) Vague and general phrases — ‘the harmonious development of all the powers and talents in the child,’ and so forth — cannot provide the basis for a genuine art of education. Such an art of education can only be built up on a real knowledge of the human being. Not that these phrases are incorrect, but that at bottom they are as useless as it would be to say of a machine that all its parts must be brought harmoniously into action. To work a machine you must approach it, not with phrases and truisms, but with real and detailed knowledge.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy (GA 34), an essay of 1909.
“The aim of the Ahrimanic powers is to prevent...development... to harden and freeze up the earth, to shape it in such a way that, together with the earth, man remains an earthbound creature. He becomes hardened... and continues to live in the future ages of the world as a kind of statue of his past... The earth could not reach its goal if the Ahrimanic powers were to gain the victory, if man were alienated from his beginnings, from the powers who supported him at the beginning of his evolution. Outwardly, the human being would develop in a way entirely in keeping with the earthly sphere, but by suppressing his innate disposition, which must lead him beyond the earth. The Ahrimanic powers could not touch man while the intellect was still rooted in the spiritual through an old inheritance, as was the case during the past three or four centuries. But this has changed since the beginning of the 20th century. The ancient Indian wisdom knew this, and fixed the end of the 19th century as the end of the “Dark Age,” of Kali-Yuga. Thus it had an intimation of a new age. This new age was to indicate that from the beginning of the 20th century, our deepest concern should no longer be that of clinging to an old spiritual inheritance, but of absorbing the new light, the pure light, in our earthly life.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The End of the Dark Age (11 June 1922)
“In this world-historic moment it is as though we could behold the deeds of those who lived upon earth before the end of Kali-Yuga, in the 1880's and 90's. That which was then enacted among men on earth, has now been received by Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. Yet never was the spiritual contrast-of-light so great as it is to-day, in the realm of these spiritual facts. In the 1880's one could look upward and see how the people of the Revolutionary period of the middle of the 19th century, were received as to their deeds by Thrones and Cherubim and Seraphim. But as one looked, a kind of darkling cloud settled over the middle of the 19th century. What one then saw passing into the realm of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, lighted up only a very little.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Karmic Relations (4 July 1924)
“The secret of all future development is a recognition that everything achieved by man from a right comprehension of evolution is a sowing of seed which must ripen into love. And the greater the amount of love-force, so much the greater will be the creative force available for the future. In that which will grow from love, will lie the mighty forces leading to that culminating point of spiritualization described above. The greater the amount of spiritual knowledge that flows into human and terrestrial evolution, so much more living and fruitful seed will be stored up for the future. Spiritual knowledge is transmuted through its own nature into love... The wisdom of the outer world becomes inner wisdom in man from the Earth period onward and when it is concentrated in him, it becomes the germ of love. Wisdom is the necessary preliminary condition for love; love is the fruit of wisdom, reborn in the ego.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Outline of Occult Science , p. 402, (1922)