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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

“Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.”

Way Results Knowing Highest Experience Arise Lowest

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“Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.”

People Way Humans Reason Spiritual Speak Natural Human Beings Known Knowing Authority Capable Deny Idealism Sensory Natural Science

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“The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.”

World Way Matter Spirit Harder Unity Phases Descent

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“You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.”

Way Young Fields Skins Scary Ashes Venus Peppers Scorpions

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“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.”

Way May Doe God Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Blind Greed Practicals Practical Life

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“When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.”

World Way Humans Made Human Beings Wise Expression Carpe Diem Carpe

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“When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.”

Way Spirit Existence Practice Knowing Doubt Meditation Birth Essentials Eternal Experience Raises Centre Unlimited Being Me Indestructible Birth And Death

Book:How to Know Higher Worlds

Source: How to Know Higher Worlds

“If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.”

Ifs Men Way Should Years Soul Past Known Lessons Europe Mathematics Math Right Way Eastern Arithmetic Eastern Europe Bolshevism

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“The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.”

Thinking World Way Spiritual Law Students Demand Flow Mathematics Math Arbitrary Spiritual Truth

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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.”

Way Humans Together Spirit Purpose Human Beings Unity Seeking Being Me Unity Of Purpose

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“If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.”

Ifs Way Children Humanity Educate Right Way

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“Our task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.”

World Way Humans Whole Sides Human Beings Expression Tasks Educate Right Way

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“I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.”

Way Writing Soul Culture Asks Your Soul Materialistic

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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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