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

Quote by Rudolf Steiner

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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. more

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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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“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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“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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“The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.”

Source: Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts

“Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.”

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“A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.”

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Book:How to Know Higher Worlds

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“One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.”

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

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

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

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Author:Rudolf Steiner