Rudolf Steiner Quotes

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.