Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

The big show is inside my head.

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

My friends, I tell you repeatedly that the illusion that Life creates is very, very intelligent. The illusion itself is intelligent! Just understand how intelligent the intelligence must be in order to create an intelligent illusion. The intelligent illusion is so intelligent it will appear real to man every moment of his daily life!

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

The world is as you are.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?