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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
Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.
Rudolf Steiner
Great
Thoughts
World
Made
Thinking
Sum
Our
Only
Head
Developmental
Pictures
Period
Equated
Greatest
Exist
Existence
Error
End
Modern
Human
Modern World
Placed
View
Ever
Actually
Last
World View
Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.
Rudolf Steiner
Architecture
World
Wish
Rise
Something
Gives
Individual
Part
Gothic
Enclosed
Craftsmanship
Wherein
Create
Requires
Congregation
Activity
Need
Plays
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.
Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge
Writing
Other
Those
Ability
Kinds
Only
Mystery
Write
Learned
Person
Esoteric
Human
Different
Average
Average Person
Human Knowledge
Who
Inner
Extent
It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Great
Soul
World
Great Deal
Picture
Our
Ourselves
Possibly
Shadowy
Mental
Beyond
Deal
How
Doing
Reflected
Very
Get
Ponder
Helpful
Inner
Images
External
Inner Life
External World
In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Reality
Will
Our
Easy
Something
Objects
Investigator
Taken
Observing
Look
Inwardly
Knows
Perpetually
Intended
Just
Which
Realities
Us
Lives
Inner
Spectator
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
Spiritual
Eyes
Before
Must
Brought
Spiritually
Inwardly
Expected
Experienced
Senses
Should
You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.
Rudolf Steiner
Teacher
Relationship
You
Natural
Sense
Imitate
Relating
Possible
Has-Been
Must
Insight
Take
Without
Been
Educator
Account
Authority
Children
Cannot
Transformed
Urge
Full
Based
A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.
Rudolf Steiner
Freedom
Experience
Human Being
Personality
Own
Thinking
Philosophy
Independent
Out
Must
Finds
Bearing
Through
Self
His
Discovers
Human
Being
Set
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
Rudolf Steiner
Battle
Before
Earthly
Indeed
One Aspect
Characteristics
Entered
Must
Superficial
Admitted
Seem
Prevailing
He
Talents
Him
Himself
However
Existence
Person
Traits
Often
Order
Laid
Against
Them
Aspect
Fulfillment
Inherited
Rid
Views
Bring
Heredity
In order to find our bearings in the spiritual worlds and see truly what is there for us to see, we need a further inner trait in our character, a quality I should like to term 'presence of mind.' In ordinary life, this is the trait we need when faced with a situation that requires us to make an immediate decision without hesitation.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Character
Spiritual
Quality
Decision
Mind
Situation
Worlds
Our
Hesitation
Immediate
Further
Find
See
Faced
Bearing
Term
Like
Make
Without
Truly
Trait
Order
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Us
Should
Requires
Presence
Inner
Need
Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.
Rudolf Steiner
Death
Nature
Together
Animal
Build
Down
Birth
Our
Ourselves
Out
Physical
Physical Body
Cosmos
Smallest
Between
New
Particles
Know
Formed
Body
Whole
Prepare
Bringing
Acquaintance with the human kingdom is limited: between death and a new birth - and this begins immediately or soon after death - the soul has contact and can make links only with those human souls, whether still living on earth or in yonder world, with whom he has already been karmically connected on earth in the last or in an earlier incarnation.
Rudolf Steiner
Death
Soul
World
Living
Birth
Earth
Immediately
Those
Kingdom
Only
He
Contact
Soon
Between
New
Make
Limited
Souls
Still
Been
Links
Begins
Human
After
Whether
Acquaintance
Incarnation
Connected
Whom
Earlier
Last
The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.
Rudolf Steiner
First
Important
Build
Reading
Become
Lesson
Drawing
More
Written
Thus
Underlying
Printed
Subject
Provides
Up
Itself
Forms
Then
Should
Based
Letters
Basis
What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Will
Thinking
Sight
Visions
Attained
Developed
Discovery
Different
Ordinary
Realities
Consciousness
The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.
Rudolf Steiner
Great
Soul
Reality
Human Being
World
Illusion
Sense
Thinking
Our
Everything
Perceived
Perceptions
Only
His
Human
Being
Achieves
Senses
Oriental
Connected
Her
Thinks
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
Reality
People
Ideology
Distinct
Those
Kinds
Eat
Souls
Western
America
Form
Viewpoints
Orient
Europe
Oriental
Beings
Two
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
Life
Knowledge
Personality
Only
Springs
Subject
Which
Us
Standards
Satisfies
Inner
External
Inner Life
If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?
Rudolf Steiner
Freedom
Me
Matter
Thought
Kind
Strongest
Forced
Because
How
Am
Proves
Motive
Affects
Ceases
Any
Whether
Meaning
Then
Should
Act
Compelled
Thing
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
Rudolf Steiner
Needs
Nature
Own
Our
Gifts
Some
Born
Bestowed
Seem
More
Abundant
She
Still
Leaves
Endowed
Them
Us
Activity
Satisfy
Among
Desires
Dissatisfied
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
Soul
Will
Healthy
Unless
Possible
Insights
Develop
Educate
Impulses
Energetic
Awaken
A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.
Rudolf Steiner
Art
Strength
Human Being
Understanding
Living
Running
Thread
Direct
Rests
Individual
Through
Students
True
Attention
Participate
Stimulates
Human
Being
Teaching
Keep
Necessary
Treatment
For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Great
Thoughts
People
Training
Thought
Think
Guiding
Evolution
Part
Study
Development
Opened
Most
Principles
Without
Been
Human
Order
Ordered
Ordinary
Which
Human Development
Ordinary Life
Forms
Planetary
Viewpoints
Bring
Bringing
All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.
Rudolf Steiner
You
Yourself
World
Space
Will
All Things
Physical
Case
Something
Directing
Physical World
Facts
Soon
Force
Exist
Cease
Cease To Exist
Done
Which
Plane
Persuaded
Actually
Things
Here
Imaginative
Imagine
The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.
Rudolf Steiner
Old
Living
Our
Evolution
Architectural
Stem
Essential
Us
Activities
Elements
Saturn
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
Rudolf Steiner
Architecture
Space
Organization
Project
Outside
Human
Human Body
Then
Body
Specific
You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.
Rudolf Steiner
You
Memories
Memory
World
Matter
Value
Wish
Out
Carry
Could
Idea
How
Get
May
Your
Certainly
Away
Utterly
Present
Dissatisfied
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