Rudolf Quotes

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made. ~ Rudolf Steiner

May my soul bloom in love for all existence. ~ Rudolf Steiner

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls ... the materialistic culture ... is now on the way to its close. ~ Rudolf Steiner

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply. ~ Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed. ~ Rudolf Steiner

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human. ~ Rudolf Steiner

To my mind, healing means returning
a malfunctioning human body to full
unrestricted function, not to remove
parts of it by operation or amputation ~ Rudolf Breuss

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command. ~ Rudolf Hess

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life. ~ Rudolf Steiner

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern. ~ Rudolf Hess

Our experiences and ideas tend to be common but not deep, or deep but not common. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there. ~ Ernst Hanfstaengl

Sold my soul to the devil, made a profit. ~ Kevin Rudolf

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. ~ Rudolf Carnap

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble. ~ Rudolf Nureyev

Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine. ~ Rudolf Rocker

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

I'm really alive when I'm on stage, ~ Rudolf Nureyev

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. ~ Rudolf Clausius

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Say what you have to say, and then stop. ~ Rudolf Flesch

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. ~ Rudolf Virchow

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

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. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world? ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. ~ Rudolf Steiner

I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace. ~ Rudolf Hess

We danced with one body, one soul ... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her. ~ Rudolf Nureyev

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. ~ Rudolf Otto

You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better. ~ Rudolf Flesch

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. ~ Rudolf Carnap

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

This shit is what would happen if the devil fell asleep in Santa's sleigh and had a wet dream while Rudolf licked his ass to the beat of a choir singing Amazing Grace. ~ Ashleyjo

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically. ~ David Rudolf

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ~ Rudolf Otto

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

When the thing observed ... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

The myth says that Osiris was cut into fourteen pieces and was buried in fourteen graves. Here in this profound myth we have a wonderful reference to the cosmic event. The fourteen aspects of the moon are the fourteen pieces of the dismembered Osiris. 10 The complete Osiris is the whole moon-disk. ~ Rudolf Steiner

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. ~ Rudolf Hilferding

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged. ~ Rudolf Virchow

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians. ~ Rudolf Virchow

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs. ~ Franz Kafka

I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead. ~ Jessica Brown Findlay

If the Baron meets with a parcel of negro ships carrying whites into slavery to work upon their plantations in a cold climate, should we therefore imagine that he intends a reflection on the present traffic in human flesh? And that, if the negroes should do so, it would be simple justice, as retaliation is the law of God! If we were to think this a reflection on any present commercial or political matter, we should be tempted to imagine, perhaps, some political ideas conveyed in every page, in every sentence of the whole. Whether such things are or are not the intentions of the Baron the reader must judge. ~ Rudolf Erich Raspe

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete. ~ Rudolf Diesel

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them. ~ Rudolf Flesch

Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it. ~ Rudolf Steiner

There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder. ~ Rudolf Hoss

[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss]
[Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and speculated on the possibility of the soul being reincarnated on another planet. Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion. ~ Gerhard Falk

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. ~ Rudolf Otto

The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don't ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror. ~ Rudolf G. Binding

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.
[Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862] ~ Rudolf Clausius

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one. ~ Rudolf Virchow

Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully stimulated advanced minds in the Anglo-Saxon countries, Holland and Spain in particular, and Democracy in the sense. to which Rousseau gave expression in his Social Contract, and which found its most influential representatives in the leaders of French Jacobinism. While Liberalism in its social theories started off from the individual and wished to limit the state's activities to a minimum, Democracy took its stand on an abstract collective concept, Rousseau's general will, which it sought to fix in the national state. Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and since most of the original adherents of both did scarcely consider the economic conditions of society, the further development of these conditions could not be practically reconciled with the original principles of Democracy, and still less with those of Liberalism. Democracy with its motto of equality of all citizens before the law, and Liberalism with its right of man over his own person, both were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economy. As long as millions of human beings in every country have to sell their labour to a small minority of owners, and sink into the most wretched misery if they can find no buyers, the so-called equality before the law remains merely a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves ~ Rudolf Rocker

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ~ Rudolf Virchow

Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal. ~ Rudolf Rocker

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ~ Rudolf Bing

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation. ~ Rudolf Bultmann

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

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. ~ Rudolf Virchow

You don't learn from smart people,
you learn from idiots.
Watch what they do, and then don't do it! ~ Rudolf Wanderone

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world. ~ Rudolf Steiner

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. ~ Rudolf Nureyev

I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt ~ Kate Williams

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section. ~ Walter Rudolf Hess

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for? ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. ~ Rudolf Steiner

Medicine must go back to nature and a physician should be the high priest of nature. ~ Rudolf Virchow

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions. ~ Rudolf Steiner

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live ~ Rudolf Nureyev

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ~ Rudolf Bing

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others. ~ Rudolf Virchow

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public. ~ Rudolf Bing

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together. ~ Rudolf Nureyev

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project. ~ Hilary Putnam

The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities and to a continuous impoverishment of the great masses of the people, prepared the way for the present political and social reaction, and befriended it in every way. It sacrificed the general interests of human society to the private interests of individuals, and thus systematically undermined the relationship between man and man. People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism. The two mutually augment one another, and they are fed from the same source. ~ Rudolf Rocker

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities. ~ Rudolf Hiferding

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. ~ Rudolf Rocker

We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets. ~ Rudolf Hoss

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. ~ Rudolf Nureyev

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken. ~ Rudolf Steiner

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere. ~ Rudolf Steiner

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. ~ Rudolf Steiner

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. ~ Rudolf Steiner

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents. ~ Johann Rudolf Wolf

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind. ~ Rudolf Nureyev

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development. ~ Rudolf Steiner

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains. ~ Rudolf Spielmann