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• I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Air, Bird, Cages

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• 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.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Reality, Understanding, Together

  "Truth and Knowledge: Prelude to a Philosophy of Freedom". Book by Rudolf Steiner (Preface), 1892.

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• Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Listening, Matter

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• Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Animal, Men, Egypt

  Rudolf Steiner (2016). “Egyptian Myths And Mysteries”, p.116, Youcanprint

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• In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Order, Understanding, Soul

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• Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spirit, Truth Is, Creation

  "Truth and Knowledge: Prelude to a Philosophy of Freedom". Book by Rudolf Steiner (Preface), 1892.

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• These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.

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  Moon, Isis, Phases

  Rudolf Steiner (1990). “Egyptian Myths and Mysteries”, p.86, SteinerBooks

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• 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.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Sleep, Men, Empathy

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

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Concepts

  Lecture trans. Craig Holdrege, August 30, 1921.

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• If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

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  Math, Men, Past

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• The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Unity, World, Phases

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• A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.

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  Men, Race, Evolution Of Man

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.92, RSP

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• You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.

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  Scary, Skins, Scorpions

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• It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.

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  Art, Use, Development

  Rudolf Steiner (2003). “Art: An Introductory Reader”, p.146, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.

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  Spiritual, Math, Thinking

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• 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

  Real, Feelings, Tests

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• If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

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  Events, Different, Evolution

  Rudolf Steiner, Catherine E. Creeger (1997). “An Outline of Esoteric Science”, p.126, SteinerBooks

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