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
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment
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.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
...the worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer...
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.
Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.
There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.