A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture? Rudolf Steiner More Quotes by Rudolf Steiner More Quotes From Rudolf Steiner 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 imagination responsibility feelings 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 important love-is people Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. Rudolf Steiner reverence educate children 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 self spiritual thinking 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 mind children art 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. Rudolf Steiner giving-up play children When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other. Rudolf Steiner unity purpose together We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are Rudolf Steiner truest humans play To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world. Rudolf Steiner real looks world 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 lying children 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 more he fulfills his true mission. Rudolf Steiner becoming purpose men 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. Rudolf Steiner new-year new-day years May my soul bloom in love for all existence. Rudolf Steiner soul inspirational love 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 community-living mirrors reflection You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are. Rudolf Steiner be-good focus teacher Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world. Rudolf Steiner magic compassion world It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives Rudolf Steiner educational important people Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. Rudolf Steiner initiative able purpose Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose. Rudolf Steiner bud free-spirit rose 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 greed spiritual god
