Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz SteinerFebruary 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy; other influences include Goethean science and Rosicrucianism...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 February 1861
CountryAustria
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.
Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character
Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.