Rudolf Steiner Quotes
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.
The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.
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.
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
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?
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)
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.
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.
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
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.
Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.
These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.
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!
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.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
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.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
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.
Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
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.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.
Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.
Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.
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.
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.
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.
If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.
Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.
