Name: Pearls of Thought, Words of Wisdom: A Selection of Quotations by Rudolf Steiner
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Baumgartner, Daniel ; Barton, Matthew
ISBN: 9781855844131

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Pearls of Thought, Words of Wisdom: A Selection of Quotations by Rudolf Steiner

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English

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Paperback

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17.0 x 12.4 x 0.5 cm

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0.09 kg.

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9781855844131

Synopsis "Pearls of Thought, Words of Wisdom: A Selection of Quotations by Rudolf Steiner"

"Truth is simple for only those who first wrestle their way through multiplicity. It is like a thread of many pearls." - Rudolf SteinerLike pearls in the oyster, pearls of thought are easily overlooked. Lying hidden in texts, they keep their light under a bushel, serving the greater framework and context. But if we draw them out, they begin to shine and reveal their translucent facets and intrinsic harmony. In this meditative treasure, the editor has harvested and threaded together such pearls from Rudolf Steiner's words, creating new textures and striking panoramas. Dynamic constellations of thought arise, allowing us unusual and surprising access to Steiner's spiritual and philosophical thinking. In contrast to the prevailing view that meaning arises only in context, these self-sufficient verbal universes show us that the opposite can also be true. The pearls of thought in this compact pocket book acquire enhanced meaning in isolation, becoming mysteriously independent of the thoughts and phrases that precede or follow them.

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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