Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

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.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

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.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.

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.

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

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.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

Each individual is a species unto him/herself.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

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.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.

Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.

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.

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

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.

Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.

To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.