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  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: I
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    • facts, friends have felt that it would be well if I myself should
    • what I might think well to do according as the thing itself might
    • seems to me that this personal element should reveal itself through
    • himself.
    • too plentiful, was forced to devote herself to household duties. Her
    • that I could feed myself, I had to be carefully watched. For I had
    • from them by myself the first steps in reading.
    • himself; he talked in a frightful manner. I felt sure that he would
    • school again,” Now my father himself took over the task of
    • that my father himself was writing. I would imitate what he did. In
    • the shapes of the letters was the body of the writing quill itself. I
    • with all my heart the work of a miller. I forced a way for myself into
    • Then, too, a fragment of social life unveiled itself to me in
    • within the mind in the shaping of forms perceived only within oneself,
    • I said to myself: “The objects and occurrences which the senses
    • myself distinctly, but I felt that one must carry the knowledge of the
    • spiritual world within oneself after the fashion of geometry.
    • for this assumption. I wished to be able to say to myself that the
    • that of the physical world. With regard to geometry I said to myself:
    • myself can look back quite objectively upon the childlike unaided
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    • I got hold of a certain meaning. There formed itself in my mind a
    • I seized the opportunity. It was a slow process. I set myself to read
    • life insurance. I buried myself in this paper also, although of this
    • Behind all that I was taking into myself from the principal, the
    • I said to myself: “One can take the right attitude toward the
    • myself nearer to the goal I have indicated.
    • Sundays I devoted myself almost entirely to geometrical designing. It
    • to myself that I must take care of this reading of what was in my book
    • build up thought within myself that every thought should be completely
    • within myself a harmony between such thinking and the teachings of
    • must be also inside of human thought, I said to myself again and
    • again. Against this conviction, however, there always opposed itself
    • had in any case to set before myself this question, and once more
    • to teach myself analytical geometry, trigonometry, and even
    • myself or of a lower grade. The teachers were very willing to assign
    • turn the matter which I had been taught, I myself became, so to speak,
    • self-conscious state of mind was noticeably different from what passed
    • concern myself with practical pedagogy. I learned the difficulties of
    • I had to teach was German composition. Since I myself had also to
    • German language and literature in the three upper classes and myself.
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  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: III
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    • true knowledge. When the ego is active and itself perceives this
    • consciousness – thus I said to myself. It seemed to me that what was
    • order to find a way to do this, I devoted myself to Fichte's Theory
    • the ego, which itself is spirit, lives in a world of spirits was for
    • In these writings I found a sort of ideal toward which I myself would
    • So I had myself enrolled for mathematics, natural history, and
    • himself thus through long discipline according to the aesthetic
    • to write things down undisturbed in order himself to give the
    • that I should find no relationship between these and myself unless I
    • vision the spiritual individuality of every one revealed itself to me.
    • merely its manifestation. It united itself with that which came down
    • he wished to find in others what he knew for himself. He revealed
    • himself as if he, as a personality, were only the mouthpiece for a
    • spiritual content which desired to utter itself out of hidden
    • this man. But, if one possessed in oneself a perception of the
    • fashion a form of “theory of knowledge” within myself. The
    • spiritual world. Thought experience was to me the thing itself with a
    • there might be an unknown reality concealed. Yet man himself is set in
    • world, then, a reality complete in itself? When man from within weaves
    • difference between experience and thought. To me thought itself was
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  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: IV
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    • thought had content in itself. It possessed this not merely through
    • in itself was to me the revelation of an essential side of reality.
    • Wagnerism. Music that lived in itself, that would weave itself in
    • revealed itself in the tones as in a kind of speech – that for him
    • from which he had been forced to cut himself off was still living and
    • an end of himself.
    • young man himself. I determined to oppose his views. I refuted
    • much time together. He also felt himself to be a poet, and many a time
    • warm interest, although he was moved to this less by the thing itself
    • lonely. On the other hand, I myself shared completely in whatever
    • powerful stimulus toward a self-consciousness in the orientation of
    • especially in letters. He considered himself called by his inner
    • of tormenting reflections about himself, which were mirrored for me in
    • who ceaselessly busied myself to find firm support for life just
    • which he was then involved prevented him from showing himself in any
    • itself. Thus our lively and long arguments became for me a
    • was an inwardly observable experience of a reality present in itself.
    • and had come to self consciousness during the second half of the
    • nineteenth century – a man seldom shut up to himself, a powerful mind
    • in himself. A thoroughly self-satisfied but intelligent eye sparkled
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: V
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    • I COULD not at that time bring myself to reflections concerning public
    • indeed difficult to express in words for myself the difference between
    • propelling forces in history. He felt life in the idea itself. For me
    • expression he used when we talked about that which reveals itself as
    • life. For I believed myself perfectly clear in the perception that the
    • said to myself that light is really not perceived by the senses;
    • itself everywhere in the perception of colours but is not itself
    • sense-world, yet in itself not perceptible to the senses. Now there
    • myself comes out in the following: Schröer related to me one day that
    • Goethe opposed himself to Newton, and Newton was “such a
    • experimentation with light itself. I said to myself: “The colours
    • to me how light itself does not enter the realm of the
    • light. I now felt myself compelled anew to press inward to the
    • which thrusts itself, both for the true natural vision and for the
    • sensible-supersensible form also stamps itself most strongly in the
    • sensible-supersensible most completely submerges itself, so that in
    • expresses itself in a rhythmic manner, the processes of breathing,
    • things to myself by means of an understanding drawn from unbiased
    • perception of nature revealed itself before my mind as a spiritual
    • the German military service. He wished to prepare himself to enter the
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  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VI
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    • accept this proposal, and I was thus able to set myself this unusual
    • difficulty in relating himself.
    • This educational task became to me the source from which I myself
    • my own mind that the divine-spiritual reveals itself in man if man
    • toward the goal of drawing up from within himself that with which life
    • fills him for his satisfaction. I said to myself: “If through the
    • human being awakes to self-consciousness and guides the evolution
    • being of man. I frequently said to myself: “How could man be the
    • soon as the conscious soul prepares itself to receive the revelation.
    • wholly into the background, and he confines himself to that which can
    • won for myself in the way of a world-conception.
    • Until that time I had occupied myself as a writer with nothing more
    • said to myself: “In order to attain to ideas which can mediate a
    • itself in the most varied forms. If one permits these forms in the
    • the bearer of the self-conscious spirit.
    • get outside itself; that it must therefore be content to live in that
    • which reality sends into the human soul, and which presents itself
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VII
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    • within himself, and of foregoing all human intercourse.
    • Primal Being which is the Power revealing itself to man in terrible,
    • me utterly by its content. Indeed, I said to myself, such opposites in
    • which blinds itself to the abysses of existence. But I also said in
    • itself that which gives meaning and content to life, and that this
    • being could not fully unfold itself if a prodigal nature bestowed upon
    • Goethe's words: “Know thyself, and live at peace with the
    • itself in art in the form of beauty. He turned against delle Grazie
    • I said regarding the human spirit overcoming from within itself the
    • himself, and that Christ as a spiritual Being has lived in human
    • imagined a man so selfless, so absorbed in the matter about which he
    • itself in direct and vital force, a place of anti-Goetheanism.
    • world. This is a self-contained world, complete in itself, which can
    • knows himself cannot be unfree! ... We see the web of law ruling over
    • himself more closely to me. In this circle I now heard an
    • showed himself in a very short while as enthusiastically talkative. We
    • them. And now, since I was conscious within myself of real perception
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    • In Hamerling I saw a person who was himself a special revelation of
    • could therefore not maintain itself with the successors of these
    • reveals it as if the spirit itself were there present. Not the
    • to myself, but the representation of the sensible in the form of the
    • of spirit within the world of sense. The true artist yields himself
    • I then said to myself over and over again – to metamorphose the powers
    • spirit which manifests itself in its own being, whose spiritual
    • Formey himself had come out as a poet. Fritz Lemmermayer, speaking out
    • At the same period I realized that I must busy myself in a more
    • “social question” itself had an immeasurable importance. But
    • taken on, in a self-contained conception, a more and more definite
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: IX
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    • while itself progressing, calls for perception without intending this,
    • perceptions to that sort which can take up into itself actual
    • the other side, which arises from man's relation to himself.
    • forth from within itself something to add to the first pictures of
    • this to lose itself in the unreal? What stands against consciousness
    • itself; then can man find a confirmation of the experience of pure
    • Weimar. One could yield oneself in complete serenity to the artistic,
    • means one shuts oneself off from access to all reality in that one can
    • life which struggled hard with itself and the world could find in her
    • her mind. Yet what she took from this source had attached itself to
    • her in a merely external way. But within herself she had mystical
    • participated in this. Least of all would I myself have been interested
    • in it; for the way of relating oneself to the spiritual world which
    • seemingly with his gaze inward upon himself rather than listening to
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: X
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    • a chapter complete in itself. At the close of this period I removed to
    • and lectures at that time I always expressed myself in such a way as
    • himself consciously in the spiritual foundations of existence. All
    • spiritually within himself the true reality, and for this reason could
    • speak in true self-comprehension. While pressing on farther into the
    • world, he fashions for himself a world-conception which is void of
    • sense-free thought advances beyond the experience of oneself to a
    • where his true being has not yet manifested itself. He then discloses
    • himself as man just as little as the sense-world discloses its being
    • himself that acts. He permits the unspiritual to act. His spiritual
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    • As for myself, the warmth of my soul's experience increased in
    • experience of the spiritual world. I often said to myself: “How
    • himself in perfect agreement unless he considers all talk about the
    • To achieve for this mental conflict within myself the clarification
    • ceases to function in man when the very mind itself becomes an organ
    • itself in ideas must be of the same character within the soul as the
    • presentation of the matter man surrenders himself and the external
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    • interpret his thoughts by means of the thoughts to which I myself had
    • images in relation to spiritual reality itself. The ideal images are
    • the spiritual world itself. When Goethe spoke of nature, he was
    • of being within the spirit; but he did not desire to think himself
    • upon this endeavour I have to say to myself that I owe to this in
    • inducement to sink down by actual striving into my own inner self.
    • state of soul in which the spiritual world manifests itself, so to
    • first makes its own inner self like the spirit, in order that, when
    • the soul experiences itself as true spirit, it may then stand within
    • year of the first phase of my life in justifying myself alternately in
    • The task I set myself in my doctor's dissertation was an inner
    • consciousness with itself.” For I saw that man can understand
    • perceived this genuine reality within himself.
    • genuine self-consciousness, as something given from the beginning, but
    • with itself.
    • itself. In willing, freedom is practised; in feeling, it is
    • forces oneself through to such an inner experience, then one no longer
    • The “understanding of human consciousness with itself” was a
    • himself that which is not given to him by nature or by the rational
    • “riddle fairy-tale” became itself a riddle to me, Schiller's
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  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XIII
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    • stimulating, yet they are ideals born out of the decadence itself, out
    • as far as himself and finds in him its most complete embodiment, but
    • of the most profound problems without immersing himself in these with
    • my spiritual experience. And thus I felt myself close to his struggle
    • herself had become poetic in a special way, and that human beings,
    • proud will which laid hold with all its might, which forced itself
    • itself to the hidden eyes of nature but not to the open eyes of men.
    • I sat in a little guest-room half the night. Besides myself there was
    • manifesting itself as an elevated universal joy in life. I passed
    • of the spiritual I lived as in something self-evident.
    • children and myself, it came about that I shared fully in the joys and
    • was also led to occupy myself with the historical and the social
    • as I thought, I expressed myself quite objectively in regard to the
    • something of an alien to the world, buried in himself. His interests
    • forces itself upon me that destiny so led me that I was not fettered
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    • “an understanding of human consciousness with itself.”
    • myself thoroughly in philosophy, but I was credited officially with a
    • self-supporting philosophy. What he found in this direction is
    • understanding with himself in vital spiritual consciousness, can
    • concepts self-woven which then attained life through Christ.
    • Goethe himself. Since he had now to advise how Goethe's literary
    • then published as a book. But he might well look upon himself as a
    • himself past these experiences by means of a dry humour. So one could
    • the way in which he conducted himself in the management of the
    • life, and he suffered in himself. I saw how in a certain way, with all
    • erected in Ilm, Suphan said that he looked upon himself in relation to
    • sanctify the thing. He had really come gradually to fancy himself
    • unique temper of mind I myself could not laugh, for they seemed to me
    • listening to him. He permitted himself no laxity in oral speech, but
    • extraordinary. She herself personally made all the preliminary
    • with us collaborators. This interesting himself in the requirements of
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XV
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    • form but pictures it unconsciously to himself by means of a
    • the forms in which one is accustomed to express oneself in this
    • sensible manifests the spirit and the spirit reveals itself creatively
    • I could not then do otherwise than say to myself that, if one thought
    • liked so much to paint. He surrendered himself to physical vision.
    • determined to enforce itself as a definite thought content – something
    • itself from the lower part of the soul and made use of ideas of nature
    • for its self-expression.
    • this fact had fixed its roots in his self-consciousness. Since he
    • impressed with the worth of what he himself thought.
    • unfold itself. The broad-shouldered man had something in his spiritual
    • personality also through which he impressed himself upon a wide circle
    • express himself was manifest in every word. How commanding was his
    • himself, living in the spiritual in the most beautiful way. He was at
    • self-sufficiency he was a discriminating poetic personality. His
    • philosopher and of the paradoxical genius, Jean Paul. I devoted myself
    • transplant myself into attitudes of mind utterly opposed to my own.
    • his life expressed itself quite otherwise.
    • lose itself in sentimentality; but he himself could become sentimental
    • for a man to apply himself through literature or art to the great
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    • impressive gift for form – this revealed itself as some thing great in
    • Family. As I reflect upon the past I see myself standing with her
    • at once perceive. For he was in his element when he could live himself
    • myself. So my thoughts often took the direction of saying to myself
    • had always to remain behind, within myself. Indeed, my world was
    • from giving myself up to the most vital participation with one whom I
    • alienate myself from it by reason of the fact that I bore my own along
    • alien to himself everything that was not his own. He would have been
    • have treated it as the Kantian “thing in itself” which lies
    • to deal with his world as such that I did not have to relate myself to
    • if one can with love yield oneself up to it and yet must always turn
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    • The leader of this movement said to himself: “One stands to-day
    • thinking – so I then said to myself – then the spiritual and moral
    • his own ideas.” I said to myself that whoever thinks in regard to
    • person cannot ascribe to the spiritual-moral any self existent,
    • self-supporting reality. If physics, chemistry, biology remain as they
    • forced to say to myself according to my spiritual perception:
    • there is a veritable reality, which reveals itself morally but which
    • in moral activity has at the same time the power to embody itself as
    • world-concept seemed to me to manifest itself in this phenomenon of
    • during which I expressed myself in radical fashion on the theme of
    • myself by a call on the “ethicists” that they were all quite
    • revealed itself to me in my spiritual surroundings at that time. It
    • sense-world, therefore, does not constitute in itself an objective
    • itself into nothing. That is, it is supposed that, in order to know,
    • the soul – or the ego – must differentiate itself from that which is
    • known, and therefore must not merge itself with this. But this
    • pendulum, as it were, between the union of itself with the spiritual
    • real on the one hand and the sense of itself on the other. The soul
    • spirit, but with the sense of itself it brings the completely
    • itself out of the spiritual world within the human individuality; and
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    • felt oneself to be wholly free; for one had the impression that his
    • mentioned above by using the words which he himself had used in his
    • compelled to defend myself against accusations; I know that it was all
    • placed before my eyes the books in which Nietzsche himself had read.
    • soul itself participates – this was the tendency of his thought. But the
    • before itself in idea the content of the spiritual world. Yet this
    • to escape because it does not find itself but can only live in a
    • revealed itself; in just this aspect I felt myself close to him, for
    • experience of the spiritual way of thought he felt himself isolated
    • age. He sought in that age, but nothing could he find. As to myself, I
    • remain within nature He restricted himself to pure perceptions of the
    • spiritual in myth, he made a path for himself to nature. In
    • humanity had expressed itself in philosophy up to the time of Goethe,
    • Goethe related himself to spirit as such. My purpose was to
    • characterize that part of Goethe's philosophy which expressed itself
    • that which is shaping itself through a merely natural process of
    • the parts and of the force elements would in itself preclude the
    • is self-evident that the principle of an incentive for living is
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    • personalities with whom I felt myself united by bonds of friendship
    • I was alienating myself from what is primal in human nature, that I
    • gradually diminished because he could not free himself of the belief
    • there merely think and must lose oneself in the cold region of
    • itself in the abstract – for this I felt the innermost antipathy. I was
    • the abstract; at that point, I said to myself, it ought to lay hold
    • only in fragments. Each piece, of and for itself, is a riddle; or,
    • himself harmonized with my own evolution in the direction of artistic
    • colours in order to make myself intelligible to him. And the young
    • I myself experienced in a high degree the intensive colours which
    • on form through the very handling of the colour itself. So “the
    • a copy in the picture where Zarathustra's soul revealed itself shining
    • myself where the artists, and all who felt socially bound up with
    • sociability must feel himself impelled to go to this place in the
    • fain show itself and expunge many a pedantry, which nevertheless was
    • revealed itself as a piece of the very spiritual life of Weimar. Such
    • sang himself out of voice!
    • gift should in developing itself experiment over and over again. And
    • itself in the course of destiny, in order that I might find my way out
    • which it reveals itself in material phenomena.
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    • author himself did not think so. He looked upon the work as a
    • by anyone, whereas his own endeavour was to fill himself with inner
    • levels there was something vital which could have expressed itself
    • there sprang up a reactionary party which considered itself as
    • So to adjust himself to all this that he might gain effective
    • take as deep an interest as Eduard von der Hellen himself in the
    • disillusionments. Unluckily, I myself had to be the occasion of one of
    • This led him to conceive the idea of exerting himself to revive the
    • between the family of the “unknown” thus known and myself;
    • and myself a relationship even more significant.
    • Naturally this worked itself out for the souls mostly in the
    • this way of thought in itself need not lead away from a spiritual
    • man, especially if he entered into self-knowledge (the foundation of
    • all knowledge), to know himself as a copy, or even a member, of the
    • could feel himself to be a self-sufficient, self-enclosed spiritual
    • world which is not kindled from the spirit itself, but is stimulated
    • spiritistic sort can be associated with this way of relating oneself
    • sort of person who interests himself in an entirely objective manner
    • in spiritualism, without himself having the desire to investigate
    • a long time among the artists in this way of seeking to relate oneself
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    • in the contents of the library he had acquired for himself; and it was
    • there. Nothing self-satisfied or top-lofty had entered into the
    • character of the poet himself it was really captivating.
    • I speak nothing but the truth when I assert that he considered himself
    • oneself” out of Weimar while among these friends. Ansorge, who
    • manifested itself in Nietzsche, considering it as representing in a
    • to permeate itself with a world-conception which held to the true
    • that which was self-evident to me, but that I had to strive earnestly
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    • spiritual world had always been to me something self-evident; to grasp
    • say, without man's interjecting himself into this by means of his
    • placing of oneself objectively, quite free from everything subjective
    • outside oneself; and just by reason of this one comes again, with an
    • opposition; and life itself is the continuous overcoming, but also the
    • so I had to say to myself – “are not solved by means of thoughts.
    • So I said also to myself: “The whole world except man is a
    • riddle, the real world-riddle; and man himself is its
    • understood of himself as man.” Thus knowledge also becomes an
    • brought before me a riddle as a reality; and in man himself lies its
    • Having reached this insight, I said to myself on every occasion at
    • which this came up: “Man is not a being who creates for himself
    • would reveal itself as perception of the depths of life, of the soul,
    • exposition here given, the world-life in its striving unfolds itself
    • according to my view, submerge himself with knowing mind into the
    • experience through ideas – which, however, takes up within itself the
    • Not so when I unite myself through ideal-spiritual knowledge with
    • self-sufficing spiritual man entered into my experience under the
    • means of the organism can be sufficiently proven by the sort of self
    • Self-comprehension shows the following as to this: For
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    • all these aspects of the world. I must answer for myself the question:
    • The problem can by no means be – so I said to myself again and again –
    • within which man finds himself, even though these laws had their
    • accordance with them, but only by reason of the fact that he himself,
    • thought; and it is not the will which is of itself free, but the
    • itself as that which only he lays hold upon in his conceptual world
    • the riddle and another its solution, and man himself becomes the word
    • spirit, which is simply manifesting itself in material form. He does
    • not know that spirit metamorphoses itself into matter in order to
    • self-consciousness. To be sure, in the brain spirit mounts upward out
    • In no case, so I said to myself, does such a conception of ideas
    • for myself, however, I was forced to view this impossibility as a most
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    • To found a newspaper myself was something not to be thought of at that
    • literature without having placed itself in strong opposition to what
    • position to maintain itself financially solely on the basis of its
    • into which I had entered. I made every effort to root myself in my
    • could not do otherwise than to provide for himself, and for the affair
    • transplanting himself into the sphere of ideas and interests
    • never overcome the “student” in himself. I mean the
    • At the time when I had to bind myself to him, an added circle of
    • myself in such a relationship to men as I have described in connection
    • impression which I myself received of the human soul background. Once
    • which gave itself so arbitrarily to the world, but which especially
    • could withdraw itself again, like the gestures of the arms expressing
    • that head. A spirit that really set itself apart from the human
    • grotesque that one for this reason feels oneself drawn on to get
    • spiritual world. One had to say to oneself what a strong personality,
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    • to be very unselfish in relation to this Society, for it was not able
    • myself from the spirit. And I was happy to do this in a human
    • important for me at that period. From that time on I myself wrote the
    • the public for itself alone.
    • bold thinking lifts itself to a higher manner of perception. It seeks
    • but which also shows itself wholly as spirit – this unity is grasped
    • still active to-day in man himself, which on the one hand form his
    • free. He lifts himself above the fixed necessity of laws of the
    • inorganic and organic; he heeds and follows only himself.”
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    • without. Against this my view of spirit opposed itself, desiring to
    • living reality within the world of spirit, such a sinking of himself
    • submerge myself in Christianity and in the world in which the
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    • body, in a certain measure, is thought, and which takes up into itself
    • unfolds from himself, bringing this wholly from his individual
    • inner experience, so must I also wholly submerge myself inwardly in
    • itself.
    • thinking which most delights to yield itself to a contemplation of the
    • me likewise altogether congenial. He had occupied himself with those
    • effect it had upon me. For I am aware that he would express himself
    • name for what he himself represented, and that, too, as the very
    • and Stirner that here also I had to submerge myself in a thought-world
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    • had till then been quite unaccustomed. I had to familiarize myself
    • of life into which I had to submerge myself. I came to see how the
    • myself in all this activity. The attitude toward Marxism was not yet
    • necessity of submerging myself in the being of the citizen, and
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    • wherein it began to be impossible for life to make itself real.
    • to himself and to chance ... Because of the form which our public life
    • first dedicated herself to genuinely artistic speaking; and then for
    • myself. Bruno Wille is the author of a work entitled
    • sense he himself intended.
    • But I brought upon myself the direct opposition of the leadership of
    • myself faced by the requirements of the contemporary intellectual
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    • the interior of the human mind as he placed this before himself, not
    • to utter entirely according to what he himself experienced in the
    • the thing itself; it was the name and the association with the Society
    • myself – shortly before invited to become a member – as the general
    • himself. H. P. Blavatsky seemed to live again in these conversations.
    • life and knowledge. In reference to this the thought forced itself
    • “true knowledge” itself which showed the impossibility of a
    • after a world-conception rounded itself into a whole which was vitally
    • symptomatically expressed in it. I did not concern myself, as many
    • course. I concerned myself in anticipation to find new spheres for
    • from which he severed himself, in order to take on his physical form
    • pre-anthroposophic point of view into which one must submerge oneself,
    • Then for the first time I saw in Haeckel the person who placed himself
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    • genuine expressions of their own nature. When man reveals himself
    • from the most varied points of view before devoting myself to the
    • itself to sensible facts but reaches out for comprehensive concepts.
    • itself more and more in freely picturing the spiritual world.
    • itself – this also has been raised: that to a certain extent I used
    • remained as they then were, the withdrawal of my friend and myself
    • can throw the right light on the purposes to which I bound myself in
    • bring to the centre what it held within itself; and I gave sharp
    • section. I made it clear that this section would never conduct itself
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    • foundation H. P. Blavatsky herself participated. Dr. Hübbe-Schleiden
    • meaning of Goethe's words that the factual is in itself theoretical,
    • evolves out of its own germ without making itself in any way dependent
    • itself and also in appropriate form in acknowledged science.
    • anthroposophical spiritual knowledge, I caused myself to be admitted
    • agreement between Mrs. Besant and myself.
    • of informing myself as to what went on there.
    • stifled by certain external objectives that she set herself.
    • spiritual world revealed itself. But these pictures were not evolved
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    • of observation man shows himself to be, in organization and evolution,
    • difference, life itself gives rise to the idea of repeated earthly
    • the sense-world, will find what pains I took to adjust myself rightly
    • warmth and experience to awaken in himself. He cannot simply allow
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    • means of the word, whereas now the word serves only to make oneself
    • for itself; it must again find itself united with this experience when
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    • self-unfolding, but the unfolding which the senses undergo will never
    • know more, then out of oneself one must give to the deeper-lying
    • self-confession on the part of the endeavour to attain knowledge
    • these I explained myself in connection with all which is present in
    • the privately printed matter the Society itself shares in the struggle
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    • investigation is not desired by the man in question himself. In other
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    • far into the evolution of humanity through the gaze which loses itself
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    • himself may experience a feeling of bitterness. I shall mention in
    • anthroposophic life which was, to a certain extent, self-enclosed and
    • How I Found My Self.
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    • knowledge in the crystal clarity of thoughts of which this book itself
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    • myself, but on account of the whole way in which you relate yourself
    • can assure you: I do not force myself, I put myself under no kind of



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