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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian
Philosopher
Born:
Feb 27
,
1861
Died:
Mar 30
,
1925
Life
Soul
Spiritual
Will
World
You
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Aristotle
Confucius
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lao Tzu
Plato
Socrates
Sun Tzu
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
Rudolf Steiner
Heights
Humility
Spirit
Only
Through
Passed
Person
Ascend
Who
Gate
Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.
Rudolf Steiner
Today
People
Treat
Progress
Political
Will
Made
Before
Think
Everyone
String
Puppets
More
Attempts
Like
Policies
Greatest
Political Activity
Reflects
Than
Handled
Wheel
Pawn
Use
Activity
Ever
Imaginable
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
Life
Soul
Reflection
Mirror
Healthy
Community
Living
Virtue
Finds
Only
Social
Social Life
Whole
Each
Found
Each One
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
Nature
Soul
Language
Become
Our
Secrets
Through
Sounds
Were
Begins
Meaningful
Whisper
Us
Now
Incomprehensible
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
Rudolf Steiner
Truth
Knowledge
People
Must
Insight
Higher
Never
Never Forget
Forget
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
Myself
Good
People
Try
Power
Other
Meet
Enter
Weaknesses
Criticize
Good Qualities
Higher
Rob
Qualities
Force
Another
Person
Lovingly
Deeply
Cognitive
Gather
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
Science
Human Being
Understanding
Those
Through
True
Learned
Dealing
Educators
Human
Being
Children
Teachers
Who
Awakened
Whom
However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.
Rudolf Steiner
Nature
Own
Back
Way
Ourselves
Must
Find
Only
True
Feel
Also
Nonetheless
However
May
Which
Again
Us
Working
Her
Belong
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
Strength
Will
Feeling
Ourselves
Evolve
Find
Something
Higher
Higher Level
Develop
Inwardly
Than
Level
Inner
Profound
Inner Strength
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
Writing
Human Being
Painting
Rudimentary
Draw
Drawing
Allow
Develop
Develops
Done
Human
Being
Children
Interest
Being Done
Should
Whole
Why
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
Nature
Path
First
Our
Guide
Marks
Out
Must
Find
Only
Outside
Know
Learned
Within
Us
Her
The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.
Rudolf Steiner
Reality
Organization
Will
Society
Imagination
Other
Constructed
Any
Different
Tolerate
Societies
Basis
Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Spiritual
Soul
World
Events
Mind
Liable
Easily
Constant
Physical
More
Physical World
Bear
Arise
Fail
Because
Misunderstanding
Misunderstandings
Very
Than
Movement
Different
Processes
Much
Descriptions
Inner
The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
World
Vision
Try
Living
Unity
Penetrate
More
Develop
Withdraw
Sciences
Itself
Themselves
Separate
Special
Many
Whole
Each
Each One
Deeply
In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Today
Eyes
Become
Our
Everywhere
Visible
Ancient
Find
Physical
See
Temples
Spirit
Seeks
Spiritually
Longer
Still
Were
Exist
Times
Where
Them
Prehistoric
Whoever
Present
We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Death
Thought
Birth
Everything
Must
Echo
Environment
Between
New
Awakens
Assimilate
Links are formed karmically on the earth and then continue between death and a new birth. Those who are able to see into the spiritual world perceive how the dead person gradually makes more and more links - all of which are the outcome of karmic connections formed on earth.
Rudolf Steiner
Death
Spiritual
World
Birth
Earth
Those
Outcome
See
Able
Perceive
More
More And More
Spiritual World
Between
New
Dead
Makes
How
Continue
Links
Person
Gradually
Which
Formed
Then
Karmic
Who
Connections
Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.'
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Man
World
About
Through
Know
Learn
Within
His
Anthropology
Intellect
May
Whereas
Senses
Which
Us
The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past.
Rudolf Steiner
Time
Conversation
First
Past
Christianity
Say
Astrology
Ancient
Cosmic
Rise
Owed
After
Centuries
Origin
Whole
Thing
By The Time
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Man
Complicated
Rest
Sense
Thinking
Our
Striving
Spirit
Insofar
Points
Observation
He
Most
Well
Scientific
Pillars
Departure
Common
Common Sense
Workings
Fundamental
Conscious
Two
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
Rudolf Steiner
Relationship
Man
World
Consider
Independent
Moral
Must
Physical
Seek
Objects
Only
Physical World
He
Him
Around
Becomes
Learns
Them
Acquire
Reason
Symbols
You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.
Rudolf Steiner
Great
Thoughts
You
Thinking
Way
Furthest
Definite
Must
Logically
Physical
Minute
Only
Take
Idea
Importance
Arrange
Linked
Closely
Rhythm
Centre
Then
Bodies
Your
Such A Way
Original
Original Idea
Even
Set
I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who had made it.
Rudolf Steiner
Soul
Experience
Key
Thought
Made
Nowadays
Every
Lock
Carried
Out
Fact
Through
Had
Attention
House
Felt
Built
Were
Left
Imprint
Walking
Person
Often
Middle
Different
Middle Ages
Ages
Who
Right
Streets
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
Rudolf Steiner
Future
Best
Behavior
Mind
Become
Past
Imitation
Imitative
Everything
Favorable
Must
More
More And More
Environment
Most
How
Continuously
Done
Children
Regarding
In The Past
Create
Connected
Keep
Conscious
Need
Raising
Raising Children
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
Human Being
Sees
Poured
He
Environment
Force
Him
Himself
Becomes
His
Accordance
Human
Being
Forms
In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Soul
Considerable
Ancestors
Those
Temperament
Physical
Bears
Obvious
Qualities
Him
Within
His
Effect
Very
Person
Traits
Impulses
Which
Connection
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