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179. Historical Necessity and Freewill: Lecture IV 11 Dec 1917, Dornach
Translator Unknown

In my public lectures I have emphasized that when we look for the “thing in itself,” as it is done in modern philosophy and in the Kant-philosophy, this implies more or less the same as breaking the mirror to see what is behind it, in order to find the reality of beings that we see in a mirror.
208. Cosmosophy Vol. II: Lecture VI 30 Oct 1921, Dornach

Ernst Kuno Fischer (1824–1907), German philosopher who wrote a major history of modern philosophy, books on logic and metaphysics and on Kant, Descartes, Goethe, Lessing and Schiller.
158. The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture III 22 Nov 1914, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

Whenever a man turns his thought and attention to duty, he looks right away from himself. Kant has given great and grand expression to this fact. He pictures duty as a lofty goddess, to whom man looks up: “Duty, thou great and exalted Name, thou has nought to do with fondness nor with favor; all that thou requirest is to submit thyself and serve.”
321. The Warmth Course: Lecture V 05 Mar 1920, Stuttgart
Translated by George Adams, Alice Wuslin, Gerald Karnow

That is the essential distinction between mathematical concepts and other concepts. This is the distinction about which Kant and other philosophers waged such controversy. You can distinguish the inner determination of mathematical concepts.
309. The Roots of Education: Lecture Three 15 Apr 1924, Bern
Translated by Helen Fox

If you draw even a single line through a person in the right way, you can see that it is subject to manifold forces of attraction—this way or that, in every direction of space. This “space” of geometry, about which Kant produced such unhappy definitions and spun out such abstract theories—this space itself is in fact an organism, producing varied forces in all directions.
293. The Study of Man: Lecture III 23 Aug 1919, Stuttgart
Translated by Daphne Harwood, Helen Fox

Then, however, he would consider what grounds his science gives for answering such a question, and he would say: in this case, minerals, plants and animals would be on the earth, only man would not be there; and the course of the earth right through from the beginning, when it was still in the nebulous condition described by Kant and Laplace, would have been the same as it has been, only that man would not have been present in this progress.
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Linguistics 07 Apr 1921, Dornach

Or rather, if this abstract concept of space is the only one that can legitimately be spoken of, then there is really only one objection that can be raised, and this is sufficiently addressed in Riemannian or any other metageometry. The fact of the matter is that, for example, Kant's definitions of space are based on the very abstract concept of space, in which one does not initially concern oneself with infinity or boundlessness, and that in the course of the 19th century, this concept of space was also shaken internally, in terms of its conceptual content, by mathematics. There can be no question of Kant's definitions still applying to a space that is not infinite but unlimited. In fact, much of the further development of the “Critique of Pure Reason” would be called into question, for example the doctrine of paralogisms, if one were obliged to move on to the concept of unlimited space curved in on itself.
124. Background to the Gospel of St. Mark: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch 07 Nov 1910, Berlin
Translated by E. H. Goddard, Dorothy S. Osmond

The most arid, most barren element in the development of the old mode of thinking is represented by Kantianism and everything related to it. For Kant's philosophy severs all connection between the concepts a man evolves, between ideas as inner experiences, and what concepts and ideas are in reality.
112. The Gospel of St. John: The Metamorphoses of the Earth 26 Jun 1909, Kassel
Translated by Harry Collison

The modern doctrine of the origin of the world grew out of purely materialistic conceptions, and what it teaches is nothing but a materialistic fantasy; nor does it matter whether it is called the Kant-Laplace theory or, in the case of a later one, something else. For comprehending the outer structure of our world system these materialistic flights are undoubtedly useful, but they are of no avail in helping us understand anything higher than what the outer eye sees.
120. Manifestations of Karma: Free Will and Karma in the Future of Human Evolution 27 May 1910, Hanover
Translator Unknown

Just as today the astronomers do not know that the theory of Kant and Laplace came from the mystery schools of the Middle Ages, so people do not know whence came these real valuable remedies.

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