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140. Life Between Death and Rebirth: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life 03 Nov 1912, Vienna
Tr. René M. Querido

Rudolf Steiner
These findings of occult investigation throw remarkable light on an utterance Kant made as though instinctively. He said that the two things that inspired the greatest wonder in him were the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
140. Life Between Death and Rebirth: Man's Journey Through the Planetary Spheres 18 Nov 1912, Hanover
Tr. René M. Querido

Rudolf Steiner
We rob the plant by our dissection, but not the starry world when we ascend beyond the plant and recognize how the spirit is related to it. Kant made the remarkable utterance of a man who understands morality in a one-sided way. Two things moved him deeply—the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
140. Life Between Death and Rebirth: The Working of Karma in Life After Death 15 Dec 1912, Bern
Tr. René M. Querido

Rudolf Steiner
One learns to understand the world of the senses only if one grasps how the spirit works into sensible reality. There is a beautiful saying by Kant. He says, “There are two things that have made a specially deep impression on me, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
323. Astronomy as Compared to Other Sciences: Lecture I 01 Jan 1921, Stuttgart
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
From this feeling proceeded such a phrase as that of Kant, who said: In every domain of science there is only so much real science as there is mathematics in it; one ought really to bring Arithmetic or Geometry into all the sciences.
273. The Problem of Faust: Goetheanism In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism 19 Jan 1919, Dornach
Tr. George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
To imagine thus that there was once a nebular condition (the Kant-Laplace theory) and that then, one after another, cardboard box out of cardboard box, the successive stages always proceeded out of the earlier—this is an abnormal idea of present-day science.
205. Therapeutic Insights: Earthly and Cosmic Laws: Lecture V 03 Jul 1921, Dornach
Tr. Alice Wuslin, Gerald Karnow, Mary Laird-Brown

Rudolf Steiner
This is really the truth of the Kantian philosophy that is so erroneous. Kant wished to investigate human subjectivity, and he concocted a few abstract concepts that actually do not say anything.
350. Learning to See in the Spiritual World: The Development of Independent Thinking and of the Ability To Think Backward 28 Jun 1923, Dornach
Tr. Walter Stuber, Mark Gardner

Rudolf Steiner
It is interesting that often it is the most brilliant people who regress very much in old age. You may have heard that Kant was reckoned to be one of the wisest men, but in old age he became feeble-minded. His body regressed so much that he could not express his wise mind any more.
334. From the Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism: Address to the Swiss Citizens 18 Apr 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
I have often referred to the description by Herman Grimm, who said: “Future people will have a hard time understanding the madness that speaks of the origin of the earth from the primeval mist in this Kant-Laplacean idea.” — But today it is regarded as a great development and science. What was cultivated there then drove out the most diverse currents, and these currents flowed into the proletariat.
339. The Art of Lecturing: Lecture III 13 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Fred Paddock, Maria St. Goar, Peter Stebbing, Beverly Smith

Rudolf Steiner
After the pattern of this book, The Lessing Legend, by the party-scholar Mehring, one of the students of my Worker's Education School—for many years, I did indeed teach in such an institution, even giving instruction in lecturing—proved in a trial-speech that the Kantian philosophy originated simply from the economic conditions out of which Kant had developed. One always encountered matter similar to this (in these circles) and probably could find them still today, although by now they have more or less become empty phrases.
74. The Redemption of Thinking (1956): Lecture I 22 May 1920, Dornach
Tr. Alan P. Shepherd, Mildred Robertson Nicoll

Rudolf Steiner
I tried to prove in this talk that Thomism is a spiritual monism, which manifests by an astute thinking of which the modern philosophy—influenced by Kant and Protestantism—has no idea or has no strength for it. Thus, I fell out also with monism! Today it is exceptionally difficult to speak of the things in such a way that the spoken arises from the real thing and is not put into the service of any party.

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