Rudolf Steiner Quotes

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Art helped give me confidence.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

We are more than one part of ourselves.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.