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 SteinerIf we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.
Rudolf SteinerWhen man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.
Rudolf SteinerActually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.
Rudolf Steiner