Philosophy Quotes

"God's character is the ultimate standard by which all morality must be measured."

"Everything that rises must converge toward a unified consciousness"

"The individual and the collective are not separate—they are interdependent"

"The contemplative life and the active life are not opposites but should be integrated"

"Every being participates in the grand evolutionary process"

"Separation is an illusion; all consciousness is ultimately one"

"To question is to participate in the ongoing creation of meaning"

"Does consciousness exist? I say yes. Can we locate it? That is the real puzzle."

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling are the depths of life."

"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct."

"Feeling rather than intellect is at the base of moral decisions."

"Times and places and congruities are not to be shaken off as immaterial accidents."

"Poverty of life is poverty of soul. Richness of life is richness of experience and understanding."

"Thought is the function of the individual: the community can show him what it discovered, but not what he must discover."

"Every individual is potentially the center of a community, and the potential must be actualized through living."

"Consciousness is the basis of all existence; therefore, be conscious of your thoughts, words, and deeds."

"Consciousness is always, and always in all cases, a matter of choice."

"Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that seeks to lead the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe."

"The polarities of good and evil are necessary for human moral development."

"Philosophy is the search for meaning in a complex world"

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"I teach no doctrine except the doctrine of the will to live and the struggle for existence."

"Man's task is not to create meaning but to uncover it."

"Who will win the race to reform the human heart?"

"All things that exist are by the Word of God."

"The eternal God is beyond all names and descriptions."

"The eternal Word is God."