Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life. Rudolf Steiner More Quotes by Rudolf Steiner More Quotes From Rudolf Steiner 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 of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths. Rudolf Steiner spiritual math thinking You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism. Rudolf Steiner your looking you self Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit. Rudolf Steiner gate person humility spirit In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future. Rudolf Steiner best future mind children 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. Rudolf Steiner find will feeling strength We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people. Rudolf Steiner never-forget truth people knowledge We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry. Rudolf Steiner find know nature path It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses. Rudolf Steiner plants universe moon sun Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable. Rudolf Steiner treat progress today people What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself. Rudolf Steiner human-being being environment force 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. Rudolf Steiner connection person soul life Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view. Rudolf Steiner thoughts great world thinking When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing. Rudolf Steiner painting drawing writing children Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part. Rudolf Steiner rise architecture wish world The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians. Rudolf Steiner eyes look vision today You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen. Rudolf Steiner new will you mood The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality. Rudolf Steiner will society imagination reality Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world. Rudolf Steiner soul mind life world One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature. Rudolf Steiner repetition development nature life In the life of our organism, we are continually dealing with a development of force followed by a state of equilibrium. Of course, the human being has no conscious knowledge of what is really going on within him, but what takes place is so infinitely wise that the cleverness of the human ego is nothing by comparison. Rudolf Steiner ego wise life knowledge
