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95. At the Gates of Spiritual Science: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions 29 Aug 1906, Stuttgart
Translated by Charles Davy, E. H. Goddard

Rudolf Steiner
We as human beings have made everything, and in the rest of creation we can see our own products, our own being which has taken solid form. Kant30 speaks of the thing-in-itself as something unknowable by man. But in fact there are no limits to knowledge, for man can find, in everything he sees around him, the traces of his own being, left behind.
30. Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804.
2. A Theory of Knowledge: Correction of an Erroneous Conception of Experience As a Totality
Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker

Rudolf Steiner
[ 1 ] This is the proper point at which to refer to a preconception, persisting since the time of Kant, which has been so absorbed into the very life of certain circles as to pass for an axiom. Whoever should presume to question it would be considered a dilettante, a person not yet advanced beyond the most rudimentary concepts of modern philosophy.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: Goethe, the Observer, and Schiller, the Thinker 09 Apr 1922,

Rudolf Steiner
And he had adopted this Kantianism; Goethe never found anything in Kant's view that could come close to his way of thinking. In the feeling of Goethe's artistic creations, Schiller found himself in his way of thinking and approached Goethe more and more.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Noun and Verb 01 Jul 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Limitation to the external phenomenal principle of knowledge; we can only [gap in the transcript] Kant introduced and Spencer expressed. Ignorabimus. The will had to be directed in such a way that it is forced down completely onto the physical plane, compressed, concentrated into a personality.
4. The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (1949): The Idea of Freedom
Translated by Hermann Poppelbaum

Rudolf Steiner
[ 26 ] Kant's principle of morality: Act so that the principle of your action may be valid for all men—is the exact opposite of ours.
5. Ethical-Spiritual Activity in Kant*. Editor's Note: The distinction here drawn by Dr. Steiner between “motive” and “spring of action” is of fundamental importance and is implicit in the common English usage of these terms.
6. Translation by Abbott, Kant's Theory of Ethics, p. 180; Critique of Practical Reason, chap. iii.
157a. The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death: Lecture on the Poem of Olaf Åsteson 21 Dec 1915, Berlin
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Our epoch is so terribly proud of its thinking, that those who have brought themselves to read a little Philosophy in the course of their lives—I will not go so far as to say they have read Kant, but merely some commentary on Kant—are now convinced that anyone who asserts anything about the spiritual world in the sense of Spiritual Science, sins against the undeniable facts established by Kant.
And it is well that humanity should have reached this point, through the critical philosophy of Kant. We are well able to say: The images we have of the outer world are such that we can compare them with images of the two men in a mirror.
188. Migrations, Social Life: The Three Conditions Which Determine Man's Position in the World 01 Feb 1919, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Compare in this respect, anthroposophical spiritual science with the ordinary natural science of modern times. The latter leads to hypotheses such as that of Kant-Laplace. Compared with spiritual science, which goes back to the Moon, Sun and Saturn stages of development, natural science does not go far back; it only reaches back to a certain stage of earthly development. Man has been lost long ago in that philosophical-scientific madness-designated as the Kant-Laplace theory! He is no longer contained in this theory; there we have a grey nebula, and this insane theory, which is now looked upon as science, speaks of this fog, of this nebula.
201. Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe: Lecture XIII 09 May 1920, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Now if the European and American civilisations were to retain their present character, adhering only to the materialistic, Copernican view of the Universe—with its off-shoot, the Kant-Laplace theory—a materialistic cosmogony must necessarily arise concerning earthly phenomena, biological, physical and chemical.
We are told on the one hand that the Earth moves in an ellipse round the Sun and has evolved in the sense of the Kant-Laplace theory, and we subscribe to this; and on the other hand we are told that at the beginning of our era such and such events took place in Palestine.
68b. The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit: The Creation of the World and the Descent of Man 01 Dec 1905, Cologne

Rudolf Steiner
In religions, therefore, the divine spirit is placed at the beginning of events, through it matter is animated, the inanimate is made alive. In our days, since Kant-Laplace, one imagines the creation of the earth from a primeval nebula that was in a rotating motion.
266-III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 04 Sep 1913, Munich
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Swedenborg's visions, dreams and world view are permeated with Ahriman and so is what Kant took from Swedenborg's writings. People keep on asking: Should I think that what I see, hear or feel there is of importance?

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