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"50 Rudolf Steiner Quotes & Sayings

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Born: February 1861. Died: 30 March 1925 | Philosopher | Reformer | Architect | Esotericist |

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.

Community Each EachOne Finds
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

Another Cognitive Criticize Deeply
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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.

Become Begins Incomprehensible Language
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May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
Bloom Existence Love May
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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Arithmetic Important ImportantThing Lives
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Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

Art Being Concentrate Continually
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The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

Based Basis Become Build
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The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Capacities Each EachOne Gain
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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Ability Average AveragePerson Different
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Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
Ascend Gate Heights Humility
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We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

Forget Higher Insight Knowledge
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We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Against Criticizing Devotion Disrespectful
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Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.'

About Anthropology His Intellect
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It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

Before Brought Expected Experienced
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Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us.

Bodies Earthly Future Just
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The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

Along Come Development Human
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Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.

America Beings Distinct Eat
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Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.

Adult Democratic Economically Free
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A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

Adult Authority Become Beings
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The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

External Inner InnerLife Knowledge
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A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

Always Appears Bears Believe
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Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Development Insofar Knowledge Man
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The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

Aim Art Between Continuing
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We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

Find First Guide Her
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Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

Alone Before Century Character
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It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.

Awaken Develop Educate Energetic
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A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.

Art Attention Being Direct
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When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Allow Being BeingDone Children
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The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

Being Children Dealing Educators
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In order for the students' development and the outer development of civilization to coincide, we need a faculty whose interest is not limited to specialized educational practices. Rather, this faculty must be fully involved in the broader aspects of life.

Aspects Broader Civilization Coincide
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Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

Acquire Around Becomes Consider
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You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Animal Capacities Fluid Go
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Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Accord Again Become Bring
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One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
Ascend Bringing Development Higher
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You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

Egotism Higher Leads Learn
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You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.

Always Bodies Brooding Brought
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The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.

Activities Architectural Elements Essential
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When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

Architecture Body Human HumanBody
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What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.

Accordance Becomes Being Environment
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The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms - he wanted to have this constructed before him.

Before Body Constructed Dead
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It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

Beyond Deal Doing External
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A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.

Bearing Being Discovers Experience
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You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.

Away Carry Certainly Could
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In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

Ancestors Bears Connection Considerable
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In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.

Active After Conceal Death
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We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.

Aspect Carry Enter Eternal
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We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

Aside Concerns Conscious Content
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When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.

Being Engage Find Hitherto
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We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
Assimilate Awakens Between Birth
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Rudolf Steiner Quotes & Sayings