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 More Quotes by Rudolf Steiner More Quotes From Rudolf Steiner If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way. Rudolf Steiner humanity children way The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave. Rudolf Steiner materialistic realizing arise 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 evolve feelings believe In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human. Rudolf Steiner divinity fellows humans In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. Rudolf Steiner finding-peace communication unhappy For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos. Rudolf Steiner cosmos spiritual lying I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. Rudolf Steiner soul writing culture People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic. Rudolf Steiner knitting exercise hands 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 We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other. Rudolf Steiner nonviolent-communication communication soul He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives. Rudolf Steiner imagination spiritual men The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends. Rudolf Steiner spiritual beautiful art Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge. Rudolf Steiner perception knowledge thinking Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. Rudolf Steiner geometry independent humans That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. Rudolf Steiner unseen roots lying The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole. Rudolf Steiner artist real thinking Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping. Rudolf Steiner interest should shows Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is. Rudolf Steiner doe men world Each individual is a species unto him/herself. Rudolf Steiner species individual The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit. Rudolf Steiner spirit world school
