Rudolf Steiner famous quotes

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Love #Inspirational #Soul

We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Animal #Men #Blood

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.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Reflection #Mirrors #Community

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Real #Artist #Philosopher

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Play #Humans #Truest

You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Mean #Heart #Imagination

Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Should #Interest #Shows

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#World #Illness #Plant

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.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Meaningful #Soul #Secret

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Materialistic #Realizing #Graves

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Real #Knowledge #Medicine

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Art #Children #Mind

To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Spiritual #Thinking #Self

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Games #Sake #Tasks

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 the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Men #Animal #Egypt

Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Love Is #People #Important

Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Eye #Thinking #Ideas

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Spiritual #Eye #Dark

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Unique #Tolerance #Deeds

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Real #World #Looks

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.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Teacher #Ideas #Important

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Teacher #Soul #Enthusiasm

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Prayer #Past #Taught

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.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#God #Spiritual #Greed

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Believe #Feelings #Evolve

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Ego #Rooms

If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In the case of fair people, less nourishment is driven into the eyes and hair; it remains instead in the brain and endows it with intelligence. Brown- and dark-haired people drive the substances into their eyes and hair that the fair people retain in their brains.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Eye #Dark #Hair

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.
-- Rudolf Steiner

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 teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Teacher #Children #Lying

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Lying #Roots #World

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Responsibility #Imagination #Feelings

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#God #Soul #Quality

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Powerful #Destiny #Bears

Matter is never without Spirit. Spirit is never without Matter.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Matter #Spirit

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Children #Reverence #Educate

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Order #Soul #Understanding

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Independent #Geometry #Humans

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Teacher #Focus #Be Good

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Men #Epidemics #Soul

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Nature #Ignorance #Responsibility

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 and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#Knowing #Meditation #Doubt