Rudolf Steiner Quotes

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

An artist's business is only to see.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

The more you look, the more you see.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

See with one eye, feel with the other.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Seeing the small is called clarity.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.