Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 27, 1861 Death: March 30, 1925
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world..
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer..
Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences..
Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual….
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 ….
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perc….
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 oute….
There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art..
For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world..
These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These f….
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave..
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the ne….
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 ….
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher..
Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine o….