Rudolf Steiner Quotes

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.