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Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Rudolf Steiner
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
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
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
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