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4485 Philosopher Quotes

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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Contains Folly Hoped Much
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Communication Free His Man
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Any Apt Classes Fill
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Blessings Effects Internal Itself
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Commercial Generally Oppressive Shackles
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Best Country Easy Journey
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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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Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

The tension Stresses Beauty Joy
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

World needs Come alive
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Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
Free means Ability Deal with Own situation
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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

During time War Hatred Respectable
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There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Every life Singing Angels Some place
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Ask yourself World needs Come alive
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He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.

Authentic realism Determine Quality Destiny
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What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Written Fleeting intimidation Sees Life
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Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.

Keep alive Dream Heart Cannot lose
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