Rudolf Steiner Quotes
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Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.
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If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.
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For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
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Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.
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Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.
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Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
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We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
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I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.
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I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.
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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 is as teacher.
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Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
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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 it in our environment
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That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
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Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.
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Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
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The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.
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We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.
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We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.
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If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.
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Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
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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, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.
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What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
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When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
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Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.
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The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
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Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)
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Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.
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Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.
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The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks.
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If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
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