The Best Rudolf Steiner quotes

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. — Rudolf Steiner

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other. — Rudolf Steiner

It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will. — Rudolf Steiner

May my soul bloom in love for all existence. — Rudolf Steiner

Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos. — Rudolf Steiner

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher. — Rudolf Steiner

Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body. — Rudolf Steiner

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

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad–Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it. — Rudolf Steiner

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living. — Rudolf Steiner

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. — Rudolf Steiner

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit. — Rudolf Steiner

Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people’s souls and form two distinct kinds of beings. — Rudolf Steiner

You’ll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what ‘looking at something spiritually’ really means. — Rudolf Steiner

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed. — Rudolf Steiner

To understand the nature of love–that is to be a Christian! — Rudolf Steiner

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. — Rudolf Steiner

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. — Rudolf Steiner

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry. — Rudolf Steiner

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

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature. — Rudolf Steiner

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit. — Rudolf Steiner

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit. — Rudolf Steiner

When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance. — Rudolf Steiner

Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. — Rudolf Steiner

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose. — Rudolf Steiner

Intuition is the conscious experience–in pure spirit–of a purely spiritual content. — Rudolf Steiner

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other. — Rudolf Steiner

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer. — Rudolf Steiner

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit. — Rudolf Steiner

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. — Rudolf Steiner

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world. — Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life. — Rudolf Steiner

Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping. — Rudolf Steiner

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim. — Rudolf Steiner

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality. — Rudolf Steiner

Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us. — Rudolf Steiner

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

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. — Rudolf Steiner

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. — Rudolf Steiner

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

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature. — Rudolf Steiner

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. — Rudolf Steiner

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. — Rudolf Steiner

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human. — Rudolf Steiner

Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food. — Rudolf Steiner

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken. — Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution. — Rudolf Steiner

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word. — Rudolf Steiner

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism… Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. — Rudolf Steiner

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being. — Rudolf Steiner

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

Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art. — Rudolf Steiner

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. — Rudolf Steiner

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing. — Rudolf Steiner

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself. — Rudolf Steiner

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head. — Rudolf Steiner

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people. — Rudolf Steiner

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere. — Rudolf Steiner

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all–round development of the whole nature of man. — Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. — Rudolf Steiner

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave. — Rudolf Steiner

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge. — Rudolf Steiner

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. — Rudolf Steiner

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. — Rudolf Steiner

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually. — Rudolf Steiner

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man’s inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos. — Rudolf Steiner

He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts. — Rudolf Steiner

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development. — Rudolf Steiner

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher. — Rudolf Steiner

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves. — Rudolf Steiner

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism. — Rudolf Steiner

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person’s good qualities, I gather in that force. — Rudolf Steiner