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Philosopher

Rudolf Steiner was a renowned philosopher, educator, social reformer, and spiritual scientist. Born on February 27, 1861, and died on March 30, 1925, Steiner is known as a pioneer of holistic education and the founder of the Waldorf education system. His ideas and contributions have had a profound impact on the fields of art, architecture, agriculture, and anthropology.

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Famous Rudolf Steiner Quotes

“A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?”

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Book:The arts and their mission

Source: The arts and their mission

“Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.”

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Book:Art: An Introductory Reader

Source: Art: An Introductory Reader

“We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.”

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“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”

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Book:The Essential Rudolf Steiner

Source: The Essential Rudolf Steiner

“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.”

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“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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“Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.”

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Book:Study of Man: General Education Course : Fourteen Lectures Given in Stuttgart Between 21 August and 5 September 1919

Source: Study of Man: General Education Course : Fourteen Lectures Given in Stuttgart Between 21 August and 5 September 1919

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

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Author:Rudolf Steiner

About the Author

Born: February 27, 1861
Died: March 30, 1925
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 148

Books & Sources

How to Know Higher WorldsRelated source material

The Essential Rudolf SteinerRelated source material

The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World ConceptionRelated source material

Art: An Introductory ReaderRelated source material

Egyptian Myths And MysteriesRelated source material

Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its AttainmentRelated source material

Love & Its Meaning in the WorldRelated source material

Religion: An Introductory ReaderRelated source material

Rudolf SteinerRelated source material

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 PractitionersRelated source material

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