Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge. Rudolf Steiner More Quotes by Rudolf Steiner More Quotes From Rudolf Steiner In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything. Rudolf Steiner thinking All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight. Rudolf Steiner foundersclairvoyantsight If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe. Rudolf Steiner mathmenpast A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future. Rudolf Steiner evolution-of-manracemen 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. Rudolf Steiner cagesairbird Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. Rudolf Steiner truth-iscreationspirit Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. Rudolf Steiner dimensionscreativityweight 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. Rudolf Steiner empathysleepmen When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance. Rudolf Steiner perceptionearthspirit 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. Rudolf Steiner eventsdifferentevolution In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one. Rudolf Steiner humanityearthsong Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions. Rudolf Steiner understandingtools When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence. Rudolf Steiner testsrealfeelings One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin. Rudolf Steiner colorspiritualpeople 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! Rudolf Steiner matterlisteningthinking Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal. Rudolf Steiner fruittasksworld Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony. Rudolf Steiner reincarnationemptinessnext You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields. Rudolf Steiner scorpionsscaryskins We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere. Rudolf Steiner knowledge-of-godinstruments Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. Rudolf Steiner guidespathspiritual
