Without insight into man, one can glue something, but not build it

Without insight into man, one can glue something, but not build it

On August 4, 2023 By Ridzerd


If, using the same method by which we educate today our theologians, our lawyers, doctors, philologists and so on and especially the philosophers, one were to manufacture bricks and build houses with these bricks, these houses would not be able to stand for a week in the world. In the grand proportions people do not notice the collapse. However, it has been collapsing constantly since the last third of the 19th century.
People know nothing of this; on the contrary, they speak of the great revival and many still think that one can build a new world with the same bricks that had long since become unusable. One cannot build a new world except by introducing a new spiritual slant into the entire civilized world from the ground up. One can glue something, but not build it without this spiritual inclination.

Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 196 – Geistige und soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsentwickelung – Dornach, 6 February 1920 (page 159)
Not very good translation by DeepL and Google and me, but I hope it’s still understandable.