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Rudolf Steiner, né le 25 ou le 27 février 1861 à Donji Kraljevec, Croatie/Empire d'Autriche, et mort le 30 mars 1925 à Dornach, Suisse, est un philosophe occultiste. Il est le fondateur de l'anthroposophie, qu'il qualifie de « chemin de connaissance », visant à « restaurer le lien entre l'Homme et les mondes spirituels ».

Membre de la Société théosophique puis secrétaire général de la section allemande en 1902, il s'en sépare dix ans plus tard pour fonder la Société anthroposophique.

Son « enseignement » est en réalité une imposition dogmatique de ses intuitions. Il avait une vision tentaculaire quant aux institutions à mettre en place pour l'anthroposophie : les écoles Steiner-Waldorf, l'agriculture biodynamique, les médicaments et produits cosmétiques Weleda, le mouvement Camphill et la Communauté des chrétiens. Tous sont durement critiqués par le scepticisme scientifique, aucun ne respectant la méthode expérimentale pour valider leurs efficacités respectives, et la plupart de ces mouvements sont surveillés pour leur possible dérive sectaire.

✵ 25. février 1861 – 30. mars 1925
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“Le processus de la méditation s'éclaire si on le compare au sommeil; tout en ressemblant a celui-ci, il lui est d'autre part tout a fait opposé. C'est un sommeil qui, par rapport à la conscience ordinaire diurne, correspond à un état de veille supérieur. Ce qui importe, c'est que, par la concentration sur la représentation ou l'image en question, l'âme soit obligée de tirer de son propre fond des forces beaucoup plus puissantes que celles dont elle use dans la vie pour la conscience ordinaire. Son activité intérieure s'accroit ainsi. Elle se libère de son corps comme dans le sommeil; mais au lieu de sombrer dans l'inconscience, elle connait un monde qu'elle ignorait auparavant. Bien que son état soit alors comparable au sommeil en ce sens qu'elle s'est détachée de son corps, cet état peut pourtant être considéré comme un état de veille, ou supérieur. L'âme se connaît alors elle-même dans sa véritable nature indépendante, tandis qu'à l'état de veille ordinaire — ses forces étant beaucoup moins développées — elle ne devient consciente qu'avec l'aide de son corps; elle ne se connaît donc pas elle-même et se perçoit seulement dans l'image que son corps — ou plutôt ses processus organiques — lui présente comme une sorte de reflet.”

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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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Source: Rhythms of Learning

“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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Verses and Meditations

“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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“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.”

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

“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.”

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Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts (1924)

“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.”

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Cosmic Memory, Prehistory of Earth and Man.

“Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.”

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Rudolf Steiner livre Philosophy of Freedom

Philosophy of Freedom

“Each individual is a species unto him/herself.”

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Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos (1904)

“Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”

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Truth and Knowledge http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA003/TaK/GA003_index.html, preface

“In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.”

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“The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.”

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“Goethe's thinking was mobile. It followed the whole growth process of the plant and followed how one plant form is a modification of the other. Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. Thereby his concepts became, if I may put it this way, intimately adapted to the process that plant nature itself goes through.”

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Lecture from August 30, 1921, trans. Craig Holdrege

“The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.”

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Rudolf Steiner livre Philosophy of Freedom

Philosophy of Freedom. Chapter 9, alternate translations
Source: Original: "Leben in der Liebe zum Handeln und Lebenlassen im Verständnisse des fremden Wollens ist die Grundmaxime der freien Menschen."

“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.”

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

“Ethical individualism… is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.”

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Rudolf Steiner livre Philosophy of Freedom

Philosophy of Freedom, Chapter 12

“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.”

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Curative Education, lect. 2

“Only to the extent that a man has emancipated himself…from all that is generic, does he count as a free spirit within a human community. No man is all genus, none is all individuality.”

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Rudolf Steiner livre Philosophy of Freedom

Philosophy of Freedom. Chapter 14

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