Quotes by Steiner, George

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he ca >>

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biologi >>

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bra >>

Quotations about Past

Study the past if you would divine the future. >>

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biologi >>

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what >>

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

Steiner, George