Rudolf Steiner: Being

Rudolf Steiner was Austrian esotericist. Explore interesting quotes on being.
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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.”

Rudolf Steiner

Verses and Meditations

World

“Those who judge human beings according to generic characteristics only reach the boundary, beyond which people begin to be beings whose activity is based on free self-determination…. Characteristics of race, tribe, ethnic group and gender are subjects for special sciences…. But all these sciences cannot penetrate through to the special nature of the individual. Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.”

Rudolf Steiner

Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path. A Philosophy of Freedom (GA 4), Hudson (1894)/1995.

People , Law , Nature , Freedom

“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe… Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.”

Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts (1924)

Life , Hunger , Question , Nature

“We shall not set up demands nor programmes, but simply describe the child-nature. (…) Vague and general phrases — ‘the harmonious development of all the powers and talents in the child,’ and so forth — cannot provide the basis for a genuine art of education. Such an art of education can only be built up on a real knowledge of the human being. Not that these phrases are incorrect, but that at bottom they are as useless as it would be to say of a machine that all its parts must be brought harmoniously into action. To work a machine you must approach it, not with phrases and truisms, but with real and detailed knowledge.”

Rudolf Steiner

The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy (GA 34), an essay of 1909.

Education , Art , Nature , Knowledge