Rudolf
Steiner Spiritual 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?
- “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.”
The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview - To
truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know
yourself, take real interest in the world.
Verses and
Meditations - Live through deeds of love,
and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.
Philosophy
of Freedom - 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.
Curative Education, lect. 2 - "When
we as human beings confront a
simple fact, we can rigorously attempt to form a mental picture that
exactly corresponds to this fact. This mental picture is then true. Or,
we can-whether due to inexactness, lassitude, or even an aversion to
truth, that is, out of falseness-form a mental picture that is not
connected with the fact, that does not fit the fact…. If we want to
develop inner truthfulness, we must never go further than facts of the
outer world speak to us. And we must, strictly speaking, attempt to
formulate our words in such a way that we only confirm the facts of the
outer sensory world…. When we feel an obligation to test the things we
say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity,
then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human
feeling for existence."
Rudolf Steiner,
lectures from Jan 19 and 20, 1923; German Bibl. Nr: 220; translation CH - Rudolf Steiner quotes on the
Theosophical Society