Rudolf Steiner quotes - page 2

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. (Rudolf Steiner)
The art is eternal, their shapes are changing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man. View quote
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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. View quote
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Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Rudolf Steiner)
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. View quote
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Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free. View quote
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The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds. View quote
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You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us. (Rudolf Steiner)
The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Thinking is a picturing of all our experiences before birth or before conception. You cannot come to a true understanding of thinking if you are not certain that you have lived before birth. View quote
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