Top 120 Rudolf Steiner Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Rudolf Steiner

52. “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

53. “You’ll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what ‘looking at something spiritually’ really means.”

— Rudolf Steiner

54. “Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.”

— Rudolf Steiner

55. “We suffer because with every inner and outer suffering we eliminate one of our faults and become transformed into something better.”

— Rudolf Steiner

56. “Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.”

— Rudolf Steiner

57. “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 nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.”

— Rudolf Steiner

58. “Sounds are the echo of the “Harmony of the Spheres” which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.”

— Rudolf Steiner

59. “For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.”

— Rudolf Steiner

60. “Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.”

— Rudolf Steiner

61. “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.”

— Rudolf Steiner

62. “Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.”

— Rudolf Steiner

63. “When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.”

— Rudolf Steiner

64. “Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.”

— Rudolf Steiner

65. “Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.”

— Rudolf Steiner

66. “If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.”

— Rudolf Steiner

67. “For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.”

— Rudolf Steiner

68. “We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.”

— Rudolf Steiner

69. “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 on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.”

— Rudolf Steiner

70. “Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.”

— Rudolf Steiner

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

— Rudolf Steiner

72. “We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.”

— Rudolf Steiner

73. “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

74. “Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.”

— Rudolf Steiner

75. “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

76. “That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.”

— Rudolf Steiner

77. “We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.”

— Rudolf Steiner

78. “When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.”

— Rudolf Steiner

79. “In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity’s revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.”

— Rudolf Steiner

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

— Rudolf Steiner

81. “If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.”

— Rudolf Steiner

82. “Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.”

— Rudolf Steiner

83. “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.”

— Rudolf Steiner

84. “Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.”

— Rudolf Steiner

85. “We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.”

— Rudolf Steiner

86. “If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.”

— Rudolf Steiner

87. “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

88. “When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.”

— Rudolf Steiner

89. “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 organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”

— Rudolf Steiner

90. “To understand the nature of love – that is to be a true Christian.”

— Rudolf Steiner

91. “In an epoch of criticism ideals are lowered; other feelings take the place of veneration, respect, adoration, and wonder. Our own age thrusts these feelings further and further into the background, so that they can only be conveyed to man through his every-day life in a very small degree.”

— Rudolf Steiner

92. “The divinity dwelling in man speaks when the soul recognizes itself as an ego.” Just as the sentient and intellectual souls live in the outer world, so a third soul-principle is immersed in the divine when the soul becomes conscious of its own nature.”

— Rudolf Steiner

93. “Today, we have knowledge of many, many things and the relations among human beings have multiplied ad infinitum. But we live in cities that are like deafening factories in awful Babels, with nothing to remind us of our inner world. Our communion with this inner world is not through contemplation but through books. We have passed from intuition into intellectualism.”

— Rudolf Steiner

94. “Where God’s presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.”

— Rudolf Steiner

95. “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.”

— Rudolf Steiner

96. “The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.”

— Rudolf Steiner

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

— Rudolf Steiner

98. “There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man’s knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.”

— Rudolf Steiner

99. “All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.”

— Rudolf Steiner

100. “All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.”

— Rudolf Steiner