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68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Bible and Wisdom I 08 Jun 1907, Leipzig

Rudolf Steiner
There, there is an experience of the “thing in itself”, as our great philosopher Kant called it. There, love is something much higher, there is a merging with things. Those who engage with the meaning of the concept of inspiration know what it means.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: Alois Mager's writing “Theosophy and Christianity”

Rudolf Steiner
He borrowed from the oriental mystery religions, from the Gnostic and Manichaean teachings. The Kant-Laplacean Urn Nebula served as a model for his spiritual primeval world being... This conclusion drawn by Mager about my anthroposophy is a complete objective untruth, in view of the true facts.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VIII 03 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner
Earlier than this, before there was reincarnation, sun, moon and earth were not yet separated as now. Kant and Laplace made their observation from the physical plane only, and to this extent their theory is quite correct, but they did not know the connection with spiritual forces.
300c. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner II: Sixty-First Meeting 18 Dec 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
Now, he is living through the second part of that incarnation and the first part of the present incarnation at the same time. Nothing fits. He has already read Kant. He cannot do things any other child can do, but he asks very unusual questions that show he has a very highly developed soul life.
109. From Buddha to Christ II 14 Jun 1909, Vienna

Rudolf Steiner
Is not Theosophy just as much a world view, a philosophy as any other, say that of Haeckel, Kant and Schopenhauer? No, that is not Theosophy. Those are incorporated, poured into certain forms, say dogmas; they represent a certain system.
127. The Mission of the New Spirit Revelation: The Different Ages of Human Development 05 Jan 1911, Mannheim

Rudolf Steiner
Take, for example, what has passed in the various Protestant religious denominations: how they have tried not to let any scientific thinking into the area that should be dedicated to faith. Think of Luther and Kant. Kant said that he had to suspend knowledge so that he could have free rein for faith in freedom, immortality and God.
147. Secrets of the Threshold: Lecture II 26 Aug 1913, Munich
Translated by Ruth Pusch

Rudolf Steiner
Life itself reveals the difference between reality and fancy when one lives in the real world with the capacities belonging to it. Even Kant's statement by which he formulated his so-called proof of God, that is, that a hundred imagined dollars are just as valuable as a hundred real ones—that, too, will be contradicted by life. Certainly a hundred imagined dollars contain just as many pennies as a hundred real ones, but for all that there is a difference that comes strongly to the fore in real life. I would recommend anyone who considers Kant's statement to be correct to try to pay a hundred dollar debt with imagined currency; he will notice the difference at once.
178. The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge: Lecture III 25 Nov 1917, Dornach
Translated by Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
During the last centuries three ideas have gradually emerged in abstract guise. They were incorrectly named by Kant, and correctly by Goethe. Kant called them God, Freedom and Immortality; Goethe called them God, Virtue and Immortality.
181. Anthroposophical Life Gifts: Lecture II 01 Apr 1918, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
There exists today a something like a “Theory of Knowledge;” that particular philosophical science which is based on Kant is called “Theory of Knowledge.” Yet this theory of knowledge is really—one might say—a nail in the coffin of human knowledge.
In so far as you calculate, just so far do you cut yourself off from the spirit. Kant once said: “There is just the same amount of science in the world as there is mathematics.” But one might also say, from the other point of view, which is equally justifiable, that there is darkness in the world to the same degree as man has succeeded in judging the world by means of calculation.
199. Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms: Lecture IV 14 Aug 1920, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
One of these I have often mentioned as a typical example, namely, Herman Grimm,24 who has said: People talk of a nebulous state, of the nebulous essence of Kant-Laplace, at the beginning of the earth's or the world's existence. From it, it is supposed that everything on the earth, including the human being, has been compressed through purely natural processes.
Now, Herman Grimm is of the opinion that a hungry dog nosing around the bone of a carcass presents a more attractive picture than this theory of Kant-Laplace concerning world existence, and that from a cultural and historical point of view people of the future will find it difficult to grasp how it had been possible for the nineteenth and twentieth century to have fallen victim to such pathological thinking.

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