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
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.
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.
Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.
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.
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.
Our task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.