Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher. Rudolf Steiner More Quotes by Rudolf Steiner More Quotes From Rudolf Steiner Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world. Rudolf Steiner inspiration spiritual men Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain. Rudolf Steiner common-sense effort inspirational The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations. Rudolf Steiner sympathetic vibrations peace Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends. Rudolf Steiner determination law action Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. Rudolf Steiner concepts thinking 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 lonely artist real The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer. Rudolf Steiner phases unity world The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together. Rudolf Steiner focus understanding perception 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 taught-us prayer past Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world. Rudolf Steiner perseverance spiritual character The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Rudolf Steiner unity spiritual world The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures. Rudolf Steiner paradise facts people Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content. Rudolf Steiner intuition conscious spiritual Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences. Rudolf Steiner experience knowing way The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment Rudolf Steiner environment divine world If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other. Rudolf Steiner greatness men world Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world. Rudolf Steiner depth world knowledge Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation. Rudolf Steiner logical impossible thinking It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic. Rudolf Steiner development use art Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world. Rudolf Steiner importance fundamentals world