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
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character
Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
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.
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.
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.
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
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.
The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars!
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.