Steiner Quotes

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

​Life... is full of compromises you never thought you'd make when you were young. ~ Susie Steiner

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

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

Thinking how she loved the very flesh of her. You got used to that with children, love crashing over you like waves. ~ Susie Steiner

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

Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars. ~ George Steiner

There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. ~ Kandi Steiner

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

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

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs
but a tribute nevertheless. ~ George Steiner

Keep in mind that the languages that you choose now will be the ones that you orchestrate mostly from home. There's no reason that your child can't take advantage of opportunities to learn a third language (or even more) in the future. ~ Naomi Steiner

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

In the silence, she realizes she wants Alan to persuade her--to do the right thing, to cast practicalities aside and take Fly in, out of goodness, unalloyed. it matters where his compass lies, to which side of hers. ~ Susie Steiner

Words don't get written from a heart that's never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths - and they were my only release. ~ Kandi Steiner

Cope's bot can string together notes that weave in and out with the power of Beethoven or the finesse of Mozart. That a machine can produce things of such beauty is threatening to many in the music community. "If you've spent a good portion of your life being in love with these dead composers and along comes some twerp who claims to have this piece of software that can move you in the same way, suddenly you're asking yourself, 'What's happened here?'" Cope says. "I'm messing with some very powerful relationships. ~ Christopher Steiner

The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force. ~ George Steiner

I want to meet the love of my life, marry her, fill our house with kids and do what I need to do to give them everything they need." "You ~ Kandi Steiner

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language. ~ George Steiner

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. ~ George Steiner

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality. ~ Vera John-Steiner

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

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything. ~ George Steiner

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. ~ George Steiner

When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. ~ George Steiner

A book floated down the Amper River.
A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held
it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood
waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water.
"How about a kiss, Saumensch?" he said. ~ Markus Zusak

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

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

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah. ~ George Steiner

A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change. ~ Achim Steiner

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? ~ George Steiner

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow,
Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know.
Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go right
So I remain unruffled when others grow uptight.
Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heart
So I might hear the answer You are trying to impart.
Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed until
My heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know your will. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there ... ~ Helen Steiner Rice

Yes, she's grumpy, but a skinny latte soon takes the edge off her, most days, anyhow--like throwing a steak into the lion enclosure. ~ Susie Steiner

Sometimes it's harder than you think. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. Sometimes it's more complicated than just wanting something and making it happen. ~ Kandi Steiner

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

They walked on in silence for a while, until Rudy said, "I just wish I was like Jesse Owens, Papa." This time, Mr. Steiner placed his hand on Rudy's head and explained, "I know, son - but you've got beautiful blond hair and big, safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?" But nothing was clear. ~ Markus Zusak

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

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality. ~ George Steiner

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

By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart. ~ Ralph Steiner

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. ~ George Steiner

Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks ... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery! ~ Helen Steiner Rice

On a scale of one to sexy I'm at a solid awkward turtle ninety percent of the time. ~ Kandi Steiner

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest. ~ George Steiner

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs. ~ George Steiner

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

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ's divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect. ~ George Steiner

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger. ~ George Steiner

What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read. ~ Leslie Morgan Steiner

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world. ~ Gary Steiner

We should hold abusers - and no one else - responsible for the damage they inflict. ~ Leslie Morgan Steiner

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought. ~ Vera John-Steiner

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence. ~ Leslie Morgan Steiner

A new life had started for me when I'd met her. She'd opened my eyes, shared her light, and pulled me from the shadows. ~ Kandi Steiner

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ~ Gary Steiner

Sometimes, the darkness is where you find yourself. ~ Kandi Steiner

Jesse Owens?" Mr. Steiner was the type of man who was very wooden. His voice was angular and true. His body was tall and heavy, like oak. His hair was like splinters. "What about him? ~ Markus Zusak

A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct. ~ George Steiner

You're a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless. ~ Kandi Steiner

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

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. ~ George Steiner

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

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

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries. ~ Scott Steiner

Ignorance is a blessing as much as it is a curse. You can't crave what you don't know exists. The ~ Kandi Steiner

I was where I needed to be. I wasn't going to regret staying in Pittsburgh or taking the full-time job with Rye Publishing. I loved what I did, who I worked with, and how my future looked. I worked damn hard to make it to where I was. I knew going into my internship that the likelihood of me getting a full-time position was slim to none, and yet I'd impressed the shit out of them and landed a permanent spot. There were no regrets there. And, though I missed the surf, I really did love the city. I loved who I was becoming. Sure, I was lonely, but I had offers to go out - to make friends - I just had to start taking them. I could do that. ~ Kandi Steiner

You're weightless. The world hasn't touched you yet. You're not heavy with the weight of pain, and guilt, and selfishness. ~ Kandi Steiner

There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less." Suddenly, ~ Kandi Steiner

May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought ... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance. ~ Gary Steiner

[...] after Spinoza, philosophers know that they are using language to clarify language, like cutters using diamonds to shape other diamonds. Language is seen no longer as a road to demonstrable truth, but as a spiral or gallery of mirrors bringing the intellect back to its point of departure. ~ George Steiner

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past. ~ Leslie Morgan Steiner

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

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

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud. ~ George Steiner

When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow? ~ George Steiner

Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community. ~ Achim Steiner

Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed. ~ Achim Steiner

The symmetries of immanence are cruel. ~ George Steiner

Can we stop talking about penis fly traps for like two seconds? This is serious! ~ Kandi Steiner

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals. ~ George Steiner

There is no god but Road Runner and Chuck Jones is his prophet. ~ John Steiner

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

Indeed, what could God be if His being could be circumscribed, let alone demonstrated by human dialectics and ratiocination? ~ George Steiner

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

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

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.' ~ George Steiner

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial. ~ George Steiner

Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today. ~ Achim Steiner

I'm one of the most decorated tag teams ever! ~ Scott Steiner

DDP, when I look at you, I see white trash! When I look at the people in the crowd, I see white trash. So maybe you are the people's champion! ~ Scott Steiner

I saw him first, but it didn't matter. Because he saw her. ~ Kandi Steiner