Europe has to receive many people who are fleeing their own countries. The question arises as to how we can keep our specific European nature while doing so. Movements are being stirred up that protest against such ‘flooding’ with people from the Arabic countries. But what is our true identity? Does it matter so... read more...
The Idea of the idea is a wonderful one. It is not only a new idea among the other ideas. All concepts, all ideas we have and are able to form are there to understand whatever we can perceive. They are, we could say, at our service. We also are gifted with senses; they are there for us to perceive everything around us and w... read more...
As Goethe found the 'Uridee' of the plant, Steiner formulated the 'Uridee' of thinking in the following way: 'Goethe did indeed practise the highest mode of cognition, but he did not observe this mode of cognition in himself. Does he not himself admit: “I have been clever, for I have never thought about thought.”... read more...
The singing of the truth in the Bhagavad Gita is found in the 13th chapter, 12 - 18. 'I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me. It is called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world. It has... read more...
'If we would be only thinkers, and had nothing else in our souls than the capability of thinking concepts and combining them with logic, or analysing complicated thoughts with logic, we would really not be able ever to know whether something is true or not We would be in the state that modern philosophy says we are in. With ... read more...