Rudolf Steiner

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born

February 25, 1861 in Donji Kraljevec,, Austria

died

March 30, 1925

gender

male

influences

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Steiner was a philosopher, social thinker, architect, and esotericist.

"Steiner led this movement through several phases. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism; his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.

"In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts (developing a new artistic form, eurythmy) and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural center to house all the arts, the Goetheanum.

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Books by Rudolf Steiner

Average rating: 4.22 · 2,009 ratings · 150 reviews · 881 distinct works

	The Summer of Black Widows 4.19 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	How to Know Higher Worlds (Ga10) 4.28 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Theosophy : An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos 4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom 4.40 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception by Rudolf Steiner, Michael Wilson (Translator) 4.54 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	An Economic Theory of Democracy 3.96 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont, John Byrne 4.25 avg rating — 1,715 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Education of the Child: And Early Lectures on Education (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 25) 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment 4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1947 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Outline of Esoteric Science 4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1997	My rating:

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Quotes by Rudolf Steiner

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
― Rudolf Steiner

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“If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.”
― Rudolf Steiner

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“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, Theosophy : An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos

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