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233a. Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation: The Relationship of Earthly Man to the Sun 11 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

You may feel how the intellect became external by comparing the way in which Aristotle himself imparted his Logic to his pupils with the way in which it was taught much later, say in the seventeenth century.—You will remember how Kant says that Aristotle's Logic has not advanced since his time.—In the time of Aristotle, Logic was still thoroughly human.
18. The Riddles of Philosophy: The World Conceptions of the Modern Age of Thought Evolution
Translated by Fritz C. A. Koelln

This world conception rests on the presupposition that the self-conscious soul can produce thoughts in itself that are valid for what lies entirely and completely outside its own realm. This is the riddle with which Kant later feels himself confronted; how is knowledge that is produced in the soul and nevertheless supposed to have validity for world entities lying outside the soul, possible?
In this current live the seeds from which the thought development of the “Age of Kant and Goethe” grew.
69e. The Humanities and the Future of Humanity: Spiritual Science and the Spiritual World Outlook on the Goals of Our Time 07 Dec 1913, Munich

In an introduction in which he wanted to write about an evolution in philosophy, he said that if you read Kant and so on, you read into concepts, but that could be remedied, because today – and again, it should be noted that nothing should be said against the technical achievements of the present time , these technical achievements have their significance, their justification; but what has been said is characteristic – the philosopher says that if you want to immerse yourself in Spinoza's Ethics, it is difficult to live into the intangible concepts.
Thus, one might hope to see a complete cinematographic adaptation of Spinoza's Ethics, or Kant's “Pure Reason”. As I said, I am not criticizing the arts, although it seems strange when the editor says that in this way ancient metaphysical longings of the human soul can be satisfied by an art that the superficial mind usually regards as something playful.
60. How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World? 15 Dec 1910, Berlin

It is an impossibility not only for feeling and emotion but also for a realisation that truly understands itself. What I mean is the Kant-Laplace theory that explains our solar system as if it were made up only of lifeless, inorganic substances and forces, and as if it had clenched itself out of a giant gas ball.
A long time ago, already in his youth, the great Kant-Laplace fantasy about the origin and the future downfall of the globe, had gained ground. Out of the primeval, cosmic, in itself rotating world-nebula—the children learn this at school already—the central drop of gaseous matter forms itself, which later becomes the Earth and, as a solidifying ball in incomprehensible periods of time, goes through all phases including the episode of mankind’s habitation.
82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: Important Anthroposophical Results 11 Apr 1922, The Hague

It is interesting, though, that within German intellectual life, where one always draws the final consequences in this direction, on the side of intellectualism, there is a philosopher, Fritz Mauthner, who has taken Kant even further than Kant by writing a “critique of language” in which he attempts to prove that we actually have no spiritual content, that in what we say about things we can only say words.
127. The Mission of the New Spirit Revelation: The Relationship Between Theosophy and Philosophy 28 Mar 1911, Prague

How did it come about that this concept, which appears in a certain refined way in Kant, rather coarsely in Schopenhauer, but then is described astutely by the most diverse epistemologists of the 19th century, was able to gain such significance?
110. The Spiritual Hierarchies (1928): Lecture VIII 17 Apr 1909, Düsseldorf
Translated by Harry Collison

You have here no mechanical process taken from the dreary Kant-Laplace theory about the world's creation, but you have the living origins of those formations springing from the spiritual interaction of the Hierarchies, as we see them to-day in the heavenly bodies, in Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
18. Individualism and Philosophy: Appendix I: Excerpt From the Final Chapter of “The Riddles of Philosophy”

The direction followed takes its point of departure more or less from Kant's way of picturing things. The natural-scientific mode of thinking has a definitive influence, consciously or unconsciously, upon the way one shapes one's thoughts.
254. The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century: Lecture I 10 Oct 1915, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

But that too was necessary, in order that the purely materialistic talents of men might develop unhindered by occult faculties. A materialistic philosopher such as Kant, a materialistic philosopher from the standpoint of the Idealists of the nineteenth century—you can easily read about this in my book Riddles of Philosophy—could not have appeared if the occult faculties had not drawn into the background.
219. Man and the World of Stars: Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life. Love, Memory, the Moral Life 15 Dec 1922, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Assume for a moment that the cosmic nebula of Kant and Laplace, with its mechanical forces and mechanical laws, did actually constitute the beginning of Earth-existence; assume that from these whirling nebulae, through the working of neutral laws of Nature, the kingdoms of earthly existence had come into being, and finally Man.

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