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- Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. Rudolf Steiner. Children, Reverence, Educate.
- To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.
- Love 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.
- Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
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- “Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.” ― George Steiner.
- “when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ” ― Steiner G.
- “the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.”
- “We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can. play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the. morning.”
- Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky
- The Death of Tragedy
- Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966
- Extraterritorial
- In Bluebeard's Castle
- Fields of Force
- George Steiner: A Reader
- Proofs
- Do Books Matter?
Literary criticism should arise out of a debt of love. In a manner evident and yet mysterious, the poem or the drama or the novel seizes upon our imaginings. We are not the same when we put down th...
Yale University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-300-06916-2 1. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial. 1.1. Ch. I (p. 6). 1. Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes ...
We come after. We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. To say that he has read them...
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. These are often as highly structured and selective as myths. Images and symbolic construct...
US title. UK title: The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Rekjavik. Essay originally published in The New Yorker 1. Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigr...
I am and remain a Marxist. Because otherwise I could not be a proofreader… If California triumphs, there will be no need of proofreaders. Machines will do it better. Or all texts will be audiovisua...
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the wo...In the United States dramatically, here fortunately much less so, the book store as we have known it is dying. In the United States it is now largely an emporium, featuring music, records, Christma...‘ Morgen Vielleicht! ‘ (Maybe Tomorrow!) by Franz Lehar, published by Gabor Steiner Verlag (Wien, 1923) and illustrated by Ferenchich. ‘Gabor Steiner! I like this man. How grateful all Wiener should be to him! He alone saves Vienna’s reputation as a theatre town, as the city of music, dance and joy of life’. Adolf Loos, 1903.
116 quotes from Rudolf Steiner: 'Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.', 'If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.', and 'Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human ...
Jan 11, 2024 · Departing Haas boss Guenther Steiner certainly left an impression on the paddock with some legendary quotes that will go down in F1 folklore. Lewis Larkam 11 Jan 2024
