Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Science is nothing but perception.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The true man of science - will smell, taste, see, hear better than other men.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Comprehension follows perception.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Science is not wisdom.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.