Rudolf Steiner Quotes

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Imagination, Feelings

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• To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Self

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• Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

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  Children, Reverence, Educate

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• 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.

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  Love Is, People, Important

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• 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.

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  Art, Children, Mind

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• To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

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  Real, Looks, World

  "Verses and Meditations". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1985.

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• 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.

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  Children, Giving Up, Play

  Rudolf Steiner (1988). “Education as an Art”, p.96, SteinerBooks

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

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  Play, Humans, Truest

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• It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

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  Educational, People, Important

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

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  Unity, Together, Purpose

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• The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

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  Goal, Smallest, Highest

  Rudolf Steiner, Johanna Collis (2000). “Rosicrucian Wisdom: An Introduction ; Fourteen Lectures Given in Munich Between 22 May and 6 June 1907”, p.11, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

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  Teacher, Children, Lying

  Rudolf Steiner, Roberto Trostli (1998). “Rhythms of Learning: What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers”, p.44, SteinerBooks

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• May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

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  Love, Inspirational, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford (2004). “Start Now!: A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises : Meditation Instructions, Meditations, Exercises, Verses for Living a Spiritual Year, Prayers for the Dead & Other Practices for Beginning and Experienced Practitioners”, p.124, SteinerBooks

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• We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.

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  Thinking, Roots, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “On Fear”, p.29, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• 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.

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  Reflection, Community Living, Mirrors

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• Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

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  Doe, Want, Impart

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

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  Teacher, Soul, Three

  Rudolf Steiner (2007). “Balance in Teaching”, p.47, SteinerBooks

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• 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.

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  Meaningful, Soul, Secret

  Rudolf Steiner (1994). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.44, SteinerBooks

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

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  Purpose, Able, Initiative

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• Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world.

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  Spiritual, Perseverance, Character

  "How to Know Higher Worlds".

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• Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

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  Ego, Rooms

  Rudolf Steiner (2016). “The Way of Initiation”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

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  World, Illness, Plant

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

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  Compassion, Magic, World

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love & Its Meaning in the World”, p.235, SteinerBooks

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• 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.

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  Believe, Feelings, Evolve

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

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  Rose, Free Spirit, Bud

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