Rudolf Steiner Quotes

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

In order to do something you must be something.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

Every act is an act of self definition.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.