Rudolf Steiner citáty
Rudolf Steiner
Dátum narodenia: 25. február 1861
Dátum úmrtia: 30. marec 1925
Rudolf Jozef Lorenz Steiner známy aj pod menom Rudolf Steiner bol rakúsky filozof, zakladateľ antropozofie.
Citáty Rudolf Steiner
„Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. 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.“
Truth and Knowledge http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA003/TaK/GA003_index.html, preface
„Each individual is a species unto him/herself.“
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos (1904)
„Only to the extent that a man has emancipated himself…from all that is generic, does he count as a free spirit within a human community. No man is all genus, none is all individuality.“
— Rudolf Steiner, kniha Philosophy of Freedom
Philosophy of Freedom. Chapter 14
„The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.“
— Rudolf Steiner, kniha Philosophy of Freedom
Philosophy of Freedom. Chapter 9, alternate translations
Zdroj: Original: "Leben in der Liebe zum Handeln und Lebenlassen im Verständnisse des fremden Wollens ist die Grundmaxime der freien Menschen."
„We shall not set up demands nor programmes, but simply describe the child-nature. (…) Vague and general phrases — ‘the harmonious development of all the powers and talents in the child,’ and so forth — cannot provide the basis for a genuine art of education. Such an art of education can only be built up on a real knowledge of the human being. Not that these phrases are incorrect, but that at bottom they are as useless as it would be to say of a machine that all its parts must be brought harmoniously into action. To work a machine you must approach it, not with phrases and truisms, but with real and detailed knowledge.“
The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy (GA 34), an essay of 1909.
„Those who judge human beings according to generic characteristics only reach the boundary, beyond which people begin to be beings whose activity is based on free self-determination…. Characteristics of race, tribe, ethnic group and gender are subjects for special sciences…. But all these sciences cannot penetrate through to the special nature of the individual. Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.“
Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path. A Philosophy of Freedom (GA 4), Hudson (1894)/1995.
„Ethical individualism… is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.“
— Rudolf Steiner, kniha Philosophy of Freedom
Philosophy of Freedom, Chapter 12
„Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.“
— Rudolf Steiner, kniha Philosophy of Freedom
Philosophy of Freedom
„Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe… Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.“
Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts (1924)
„Goethe's thinking was mobile. It followed the whole growth process of the plant and followed how one plant form is a modification of the other. Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. Thereby his concepts became, if I may put it this way, intimately adapted to the process that plant nature itself goes through.“
Lecture from August 30, 1921, trans. Craig Holdrege
