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Rudolf Steiner Famous Quotes & Sayings

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The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer ...

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

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

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

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

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

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

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

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

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

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

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

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

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

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

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

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.

Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.

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

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

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

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

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.

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

Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

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

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

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

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

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

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

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

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

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

Matter is never without Spirit. Spirit is never without Matter.

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

Each individual is a species unto him/herself.

Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.

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

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

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

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

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.

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!

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

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

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

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

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

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

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.

Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

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.

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

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.