The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.
Rudolf SteinerIt is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.
Rudolf SteinerLove is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
Rudolf SteinerWhen the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
Rudolf SteinerOne can only understand history and all of social life, including todayโs social life, if one pays attention to peopleโs racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.
Rudolf Steiner