Rudolf Steiner Quotes

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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.

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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?

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For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

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Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.

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

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Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

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Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

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You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.

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In thinking, we have that element given us which welds our separate individuality into one whole with the cosmos.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the moral Sun of the world.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

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

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Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.

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

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In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.

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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.

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

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Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

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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.

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