Rudolf Steiner Quotes

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• When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth…
• 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…
• 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…
• Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the…
• 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…
• Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of…
• Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
• Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are…
• The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover…
• When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is,…
• If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should…
• The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws…
• That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
• 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…
• Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are…
• These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen…
• Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.
• To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
• 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…
• Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

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