Rudolf Steiner Quotes

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.

Disorder brings about order.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.