Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz SteinerFebruary 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy; other influences include Goethean science and Rosicrucianism...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 February 1861
CountryAustria
Rudolf Steiner quotes about
Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.
Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.
Matter is never without Spirit. Spirit is never without Matter.
Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.
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.
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos...
In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.
Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.
If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.