Rudolf Steiner Quotations

The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.

The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

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?

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.