1. “We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.” – Rudolf Steiner
2. “Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.” – Rudolf Steiner
3. “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.” – Rudolf Steiner
4. “All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.” – Rudolf Steiner
5. “When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.” – Rudolf Steiner
6. “For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.” – Rudolf Steiner
7. “Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.” – Rudolf Steiner
8. “When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.” – Rudolf Steiner
9. “These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.” – Rudolf Steiner
10. “Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.” – Rudolf Steiner
11. “We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.” – Rudolf Steiner
12. “Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.” – Rudolf Steiner
13. “When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.” – Rudolf Steiner
14. “For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.” – Rudolf Steiner
15. “Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.” – Rudolf Steiner
16. “The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.” – Rudolf Steiner
17. “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
18. “Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.” – Rudolf Steiner
19. “The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.” – Rudolf Steiner
20. “In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.” – Rudolf Steiner
21. “If a man makes his life desolate by losing touch with the unseen, he not only destroys in his inner self something, the decay of which may eventually drive him to despair, but through his weakness he constitutes a hindrance to the evolution of the whole world in which he lives.” – Rudolf Steiner
22. “Intuition is the conscious experience – in pure spirit – of a purely spiritual content.” – Rudolf Steiner
23. “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
24. “To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.” – Rudolf Steiner
25. “Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.” – Rudolf Steiner
26. “When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.” – Rudolf Steiner
27. “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.” – Rudolf Steiner
28. “Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.” – Rudolf Steiner
29. “It does not matter if what I think differs from what the other person thinks. What matters is that, as a result of what I can contribute to the conversation, the other discovers what is right out of themselves.” – Rudolf Steiner
30. “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
31. “If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.” – Rudolf Steiner
32. “All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.” – Rudolf Steiner
33. “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
34. “When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.” – Rudolf Steiner
35. “I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.” – Rudolf Steiner
36. “Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.” – Rudolf Steiner
37. “For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.” – Rudolf Steiner
38. “When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.” – Rudolf Steiner
39. “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
40. “For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.” – Rudolf Steiner
41. “If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.” – Rudolf Steiner
42. “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
43. “What is it that arises in modern people in an Ahrimanic form? It is his knowledge of the outer world. There is nothing more ahrimanic than this knowledge of the material world, for it is sheer illusion.” – Rudolf Steiner
44. “The thinker seeks the laws of phenomena, and strives to penetrate by thinking what he experiences by observing. Only when we have made the world-content into our thought-content do we again find the unity out of which we had separated ourselves. We shall see later that this goal can be reached only if the task of the research scientist is conceived at a much deeper level than is often the case.” – Rudolf Steiner
45. “Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.” – Rudolf Steiner
46. “He remembers that it was said to him, “Our ancestors were animal forms.” But he does not remember that these forms were gods. This is the psychological basis for the emergence of Darwinism.” – Rudolf Steiner
47. “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.” – Rudolf Steiner
48. “If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.” – Rudolf Steiner
49. “The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism… Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.” – Rudolf Steiner
50. “Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.” – Rudolf Steiner
51. “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
52. “Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.” – Rudolf Steiner
53. “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
54. “Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.” – Rudolf Steiner
55. “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
56. “To identify oneself with all beings does not mean that the body is to be despised. It must be borne as some exterior object, even as Christ bore His Cross. The Spirit must wield the body as the hand wields the hammer.” – Rudolf Steiner
57. “There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.” – Rudolf Steiner
58. “In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.” – Rudolf Steiner
59. “Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.” – Rudolf Steiner
60. “You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.” – Rudolf Steiner
61. “For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character.” – Rudolf Steiner
62. “He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts.” – Rudolf Steiner
63. “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
64. “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
65. “The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.” – Rudolf Steiner
66. “The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars!” – Rudolf Steiner
67. “It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives” – Rudolf Steiner
68. “All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.” – Rudolf Steiner
69. “What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.” – Rudolf Steiner
70. “Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility – these three forces are the very nerve of education.” – Rudolf Steiner
71. “Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain,” – Rudolf Steiner
72. “a beggar on earth than a king in the realm of shades.” – Rudolf Steiner
73. “for even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.” – Rudolf Steiner
74. “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
75. “The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child’s experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.” – Rudolf Steiner
76. “Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled – thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.” – Rudolf Steiner
77. “In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.” – Rudolf Steiner
78. “Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.” – Rudolf Steiner
79. “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.” – Rudolf Steiner
80. “Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos…” – Rudolf Steiner
81. “That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.” – Rudolf Steiner
82. “The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment.” – Rudolf Steiner
83. “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
84. “The more conscious I become that I am born out of the universe, the more deeply I feel the responsibility to develop in myself the forces given to me by a whole universe, the better human being I can become.” – Rudolf Steiner
85. “We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.” – Rudolf Steiner
86. “Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.” – Rudolf Steiner
87. “We suffer because with every inner and outer suffering we eliminate one of our faults and become transformed into something better.” – Rudolf Steiner
88. “Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.” – Rudolf Steiner
89. “Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.” – Rudolf Steiner
90. “The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.” – Rudolf Steiner
91. “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