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In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.
If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
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.
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
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.
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.
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.
Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.
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.
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.
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.
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.
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.