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  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: I
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    • of spiritual realities and occurrences.” In my thoughts I could
    • walked with his head bowed over as if in deep thought. People called
    • in it, perceived it; but my real thoughts, feelings, and experience
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: II
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    • For my father there came out of all this the thought that I should not
    • whatever had thought about him, in approval or in disapproval, was to
    • learn from our books what he had given us in this fashion. I thought
    • decision as to the relation sustained by human thought to the creative
    • The feeling I had in regard to these strivings of thought was
    • build up thought within myself that every thought should be completely
    • subject to survey, that no vague feeling should incline the thought in
    • scope of human capacity for thought. It seemed to me that thinking
    • must be also inside of human thought, I said to myself again and
    • “Doctor.” He was the brother of the thoughtful Tyrolese poet
    • had already given away the best thoughts on that topic.
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: III
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    • Through this book I thought I recognized
    • consciously to the end that I might mould into the forms of thought
    • thought from the period of Kant onward. I fought my way through to
    • Schelling, to Hegel. The opposition between the thought of Herbart and
    • recognized the discipline of thought to be had from this philosopher.
    • Schröer was a spirit who cared nothing for system. He thought and
    • requisite attention to the bodying forth of this thought in
    • was the perfect logician. Each thought must be absolutely complete and
    • linked up with many other thoughts. The forms of these thought-series
    • of logic. But I had the feeling that these thoughts did not come forth
    • philosophy which I learned from others could not in its thought be
    • life of thought in men came gradually to seem to me the reflection
    • spiritual world. Thought experience was to me the thing itself with a
    • one does not lay hold upon it as upon thought. In it or behind it
    • into this world of the senses the thoughts which bring light into this
    • of his thought. Thought then appears to be that by means of which the
    • But I wished to be prudent. To follow a course of thought too hastily
    • of thought was distressing to me. That he made his way through only to
    • a thought world, even though a living thought-world, and not to the
    • assurance with which one philosophizes when one advances from thought
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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
    • this perception of a way of thought and order of feeling which were
    • very little. Most people thought him an odd character. With those few
    • quite unaware how little our thoughts harmonized, because his friendly
    • of his thought, against the knowledge of a spiritual world.
    • all possible authors who had written books that I thought would be of
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: V
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    • of the prevailing current of thought; so he removed to Vienna, where
    • “Would Goethe have felt or thought thus?”
    • for me to conceive thoughts concerning the state of public life which
    • independently of Goethe's way of thought concerning the natural
    • I found that light and sound were thought of in an analogy which is
    • was viewed as a state of vibration of the air. Light was thought of
    • thoughts which I had formed concerning the nature of light and that of
    • Deutsche National Literatur. I thought much more of setting
    • Moreover, in the matter of pedagogical thought, there came to me from
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VI
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    • Hartmann's theory of knowledge – speculative thought linked to unknown
    • The form of thought by which natural science has been dominated since
    • right form in the totality of human achievement. The form of thought
    • What Goethe thought and elaborated in detail regarding this or that
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VII
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    • received it, he wrote me that, if I thought in such a way about
    • actually torn in two. But it was just at this time that those thoughts
    • thoughts that we conceive are merely the fruit of the blind power of
    • These thoughts I did not evolve out of a spirit of controversy; but I
    • could live wholly in his poems, thoughts, and conceptions. For a
    • things as repeated earth-lives, I did not form in my own thoughts; I
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: VIII
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    • necessity to state my view of the spiritual world in a form of thought
    • yet be absolutely tranquil within, my thoughts concentrated upon the
    • Homunculus made a deep impression. It showed, so I thought, those
    • those who thought in his way found the content of art in the
    • art, and the moral will in man became in my thought the members which
    • transparent in character as the most transparent thought. In this way
    • editorial work. I thought I could see whither we ought to steer in the
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: IX
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    • life. For years I had lived in the thoughts of Goethe; now I was
    • permitted to be in the places where these thoughts had arisen. I
    • I soon thought I could recognize that the previously unpublished
    • upon such directing thoughts as the following among Goethe's papers: –
    • spirit. Such were the ways taken by my thoughts, repeating in clearer
    • confidence, which showed how he had woven certain basic thoughts about
    • thoughts everything which came to him from other points of view was at
    • journey, buried in thoughts and recollections of this visit, which was
    • much out of this theosophy. The thought-content which is there to be
    • thought-content, and, in a sense, quite independently of this. For my
    • formed of my attitude toward art. She thought that I denied true art,
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    • thought, which it does not form out of the sense world but unfolds in
    • man sense-free thought comes forth to meet the sense-perception, then
    • sense-perception must also attribute to thought objects which lie
    • beyond mere sense reality. But these objects of thought are ideas.
    • sense-free thought advances beyond the experience of oneself to a
    • intuitions of his sense-free thought. Then he alone acts, nothing
    • that whoever rejects sense-free thought as something purely spiritual
    • that by means of thought are selected from the totality of his world
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XI
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    • spiritual. And yet, when I thought of the nature of the mystic's
    • content was materialistically thought out. I desired to form ideas
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XII
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    • While I was labouring to reduce to correct forms of thought Goethe's
    • interpret his thoughts by means of the thoughts to which I myself had
    • thought-pictures as contrasted with the knowledge of the illimitable
    • the phenomena of meteorology. But his ideas are not abstract thoughts;
    • they are images living in the form of thoughts within the mind.
    • happens in nature. It was clear to me that the form of thought in the
    • in thoughts concerning this standing-within. He desired the experience
    • only gave expression to thoughts concerning his world conception. And
    • was my constant endeavour in the statement of my thoughts to keep my
    • inner experience fully awake within the very thoughts. This gives to
    • thoughts the mystical character of inner perception, but makes the
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XIII
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    • Everyone had thoughts that would be the means of a cure, always
    • fully conscious thought in spiritual experience. Only I then observed
    • book which dealt wholly with the surface of thoughts that have to do
    • dealers in the small change of thought moving in the shallows of the
    • constitution. I mean to say that she thought instinctively about man
    • as I thought, I expressed myself quite objectively in regard to the
    • spoke in a mild thoughtfulness; his walk was not fast but very
    • hypnotism had given a special colouring to medical thought. My friend
    • which gave me much food for thought. This woman thought in a certain
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    • philosophical individuality. Philosophy as thought-content is not
    • of thought-content through mere philosophy.
    • occupied my thoughts on my walk to and from the archives; it occupied
    • hands of Scherer. Loeper really thought nothing about this further
    • the household of the Prussian King. Herman Grimm thought just as
    • thought and work.
    • a firm articulation of thought.
    • satisfying impression. It was a pleasing thought to know that he was
    • man died. I grieved over the painful thought that his misfortune had
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XV
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    • But there was at that time another occasion for me to give thought to
    • of thought about the world and man, about nature and spirit, as this
    • interjected his natural-scientific ideas into this thought, I saw in
    • Haeckel an illustration of what was then thought in this direction.
    • I could not then do otherwise than say to myself that, if one thought
    • that must necessarily result which Haeckel thought in utter
    • sharpness of thought penetrated through. This look could endure only
    • sense-impressions, not thoughts which reveal themselves in things and
    • thoughts to reveal themselves in the senses. I understood why Haeckel
    • determined to enforce itself as a definite thought content – something
    • a shadowy being with incompletely thought-out, narrowly limited ideas
    • furious spiritual battle that raged over his tendency of thought at
    • imparting his thoughts in a group of men. It could clearly be seen how
    • could not hear any opposition to his thoughts, he was strongly
    • impressed with the worth of what he himself thought.
    • conversations we had held about the two persons. Indeed, the thought
    • He thought that ideals could live in a social circle of select men,
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XVI
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    • myself. So my thoughts often took the direction of saying to myself
    • thoughts which the spiritual world had given me up to my thirtieth
    • perceived and thought; but I could not cause my own inner spiritual
    • I was talking with him. I received his thoughts, entered into them as
    • alone. He was so woven into his own thought that he felt as something
    • fascination of that which is thought out in a certain direction.
    • many persons. They easily adapt themselves to thought which is quite
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    • as regards the life of thought and the religious and social feelings.
    • thought, shall also express their diversity in such a way as thus to
    • of nature seemed to say to them, and thought in regard to these
    • nature.” I thought that this seemed indifferent to the
    • I talked to him of my view regarding the ethicists. I thought I could
    • thought I would “think quite sensibly” when I had convinced
    • sources of the ideas and my objective. He thought of the sense-world
    • thought that I intended to remain within the phenomena and abandon the
    • thought of arriving from these at any sort of objective reality. He
    • thought.” This was fundamentally the view of the age to
  • Title: The Story of My Life: Chapter: XVIII
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    • Spiritual Activity, Nietzsche's thought had not the least
    • element in him had brought to maturity many thoughts that bore a
    • shaping thoughts within, and which now would fain rest a while. An
    • In my thoughts I could only stammer over what I then beheld; and this
    • develops the thought that one can conceive the cosmos at a single
    • Dühring rejects this thought as an impossibility Nietzsche reads this;
    • upon him as the content of the thought and feeling of his age. This
    • fashion everything which he thought or experienced in the depth of his
    • soul itself participates – this was the tendency of his thought. But the
    • way of thought in the conception was only the remains of ancient ways
    • which Nietzsche proclaimed the conclusions of his thought?
    • in the content of his thought he was close to no one; as to the
    • experience of the spiritual way of thought he felt himself isolated
    • Nietzsche's thought Apollo had to represent the material after the
    • from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the
    • and dazzled him with the thought of a higher “natural man.”
    • What Nietzsche had experienced in this way of thought was present in
    • opinions I formed at that time of this process of Nietzsche's thought
    • science. I will transcribe those thoughts of mine here, freed from the
    • thought is quite clearly expressed; but it is there as energetically
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    • silence within me as my world-conception, while my thoughts were
    • thought, and this he sensed as a certain coldness proceeding from me.
    • in the region of thought.
    • That, instead of being chilled in this life of thought, I had to take
    • to live in the sphere of thought; it was his opinion that one can
    • in a condition of mind in which I would develop thought drawn from the
    • sense world only to that stage at which thought tends to veer off into
    • upon the spirit. My friend saw that I moved in thought out of the
    • words merely a web of abstract thoughts.
    • method of nature-research in which one applies one's thought to the
    • thought elaborate concerning the region of sense-perception hypotheses
    • fact, constitute a mere web of abstract thoughts. At that moment in
    • which thought has completed its work in fixing that which is rendered
    • progress of experience and of thought. In such cases the formation of
    • when it is considered, not merely as an aid to abstract thought, but
    • side reference. But this way of forming thoughts had always laid down
    • mere thoughts combine which the ordinary man shapes from the world.
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    • He thought he could dissuade the entourage of the
    • thought out by him.
    • widow's life was filled with pious thoughts about her dead husband. It
    • habits of thought of the time, was demanded by the facts.
    • thought-evaluations” had planted in these individualities.
    • thought-evaluations are not something which alienates man after death
    • mastered the material in thought during their previous earthly life
    • through whom the significance of the natural-scientific way of thought
    • this way of thought in itself need not lead away from a spiritual
    • thought if one brings inner mood and force to the task during the
    • stimulating exchange of thought and feeling, yet it was impossible for
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    • thought and feeling in contemporary spiritual life.
    • In this way Weimar became for me the place to which my thoughts had
    • She brought forward whatever she had to say thoughtfully and yet
    • him in the thought of giving me pleasure by means of the Hegel bust.
    • whose features are the most human expression of the purest thought,
    • Through this man, who derived his thought from Hegel, Rudolf Schmidt
    • understanding for everything which I thought it possible to introduce
    • then shaped my thoughts for the volume an echo of the inner nature of
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    • thought, or by some other soul-content arising within him.
    • philosophical thought – perhaps to a “monism.” Rather I felt
    • absorption, not in theoretical comprehension by means of thought, but
    • thought-content as the solution of a riddle. But the riddles” –
    • so I had to say to myself – “are not solved by means of thoughts.
    • In this way I arrived at the thought: “Man is able at every
    • the powers of thought there existent. Repetitions of the acquired
    • thought. One must make this process of acquisition a continuous
    • of experience than to recognize in thought an unknown spiritual in
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    • nature of their thought content. Freedom has its life in human
    • thought; and it is not the will which is of itself free, but the
    • thought in discussing the moral nature of the will. This idea also was
    • but only conceived through thought the external cause of man's
    • thought that it is impossible to trace it to the point where it is
    • manner to fall into typical ways of thought which remove the thing so
    • that the thought of the age could “not in the least lay hold of
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    • For a long time previously I had thought of bringing to bear upon my
    • To found a newspaper myself was something not to be thought of at that
    • thought worthy of being incorporated into the intellectual life of
    • something in which they, as “artistic natures,” thought they
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    • thoughts there should arise before the reader an ideal poetic
    • author produced his play. For to me thoughts were never merely
    • thought-conceptions just as in colours, in forms, in stage devices.
    • an “art-thought form.” For this cannot be concealed even
    • thought art reproduction. For one there sets forth the thoughts, but
    • thought-fantasy to bring into existence that which the art of the
    • thought, or else they laugh and say: “Yes, that's right, but I
    • by an idea which lay as far as possible from the habits of thought of
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    • In my thoughts I perceived that there could result from the knowledge
    • into a certain course of thought signified a mere activity of thought.
    • of spirit who desire to make such tendencies of thought the sole
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    • THE thought then hovered before me that the turn of the century must
    • That a real, new objective world could be revealed – such a thought
    • forms of thought. Thenceforth knowledge must not be
    • body, in a certain measure, is thought, and which takes up into itself
    • Since in Hegelianism everything spiritual has become thought, Hegel
    • Hegel was wholly the man of thought, who in his inner unfolding
    • Hegel would have the thought of the moral take objective form more and
    • thought the same name which his opponents had, only with another
    • and Stirner that here also I had to submerge myself in a thought-world
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    • movement. I keep always alive in my heart thoughts of our friendship,
    • Martha Asmers, a woman philosophically thoughtful but strongly
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    • associated in my thought with this fairy-tale. I saw set forth in the
    • to mental necessity through his reason. And he thought the soul must
    • life and knowledge. In reference to this the thought forced itself
    • men with deeper intellectual needs find the proud structure of thought
    • thought which human knowledge experienced in the philosophical systems
    • of thought. But this I considered only as a succession of sensible
    • All this was still thought by me in ideal content ; only later did I
    • consists in the fact that a thought, when spiritually experienced as
    • thought, can conceive the evolution of living beings only as this is
    • all other researchers excluded thought and admitted only the results
    • thought in laying the foundation for reality drew me again and again
    • simplicity as regards philosophy, had employed thought as the means
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    • habit of thought built up during the second half of the nineteenth
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    • is something painful in having to meet again and again such thoughts,
    • before the “scientific” mode of thought of the time. That
    • of my life. I took that mode of thought which rightly passes as
    • This mode of thought was supposed to be figurative. Complicated
    • thought that one could not even seriously discuss.
    • processes in matter. What was important to me was that the thoughtful
    • which the senses give, and must employ thought solely in order to go
    • so deeply rooted in the mode of thought that abandoning it means
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    • inner process of thought in order thereby to live in closer contact
    • overcome the habits of thought which have led to it. Such a confession
    • Scheler's mode of thought made an agreeable impression upon me. Even
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    • in such a way that there was never any thought of the public in
    • ceremonies that embody the “ancient wisdom.” I never thought
    • region of clear consciousness, so there could be no thought of
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    • knowledge in the crystal clarity of thoughts of which this book itself
    • Ye are predestined by Thought Divine.



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