My dear friends, it is true that to establish morality is difficult; to preach morality is easy. To establish morality means to establish it out of wisdom, and one must first have this wisdom. Here we see that it was after all a rather intelligent utterance on the part of Schopenhauer when he said that to establish morality is difficult.
Thus we see how unfounded it is when people who do not really know anthroposophy come and say that it contains no moral incentives. Anthroposophy shows us what we accomplish in the world when we do not act morally. It provides wisdom, and from this very wisdom morality streams forth. There is no greater arrogance than to say that one need only be a good person and all will be in order. The trouble is that one must first know how one goes about really being a good person. Our contemporary consciousness is very arrogant when it wishes to reject all wisdom. True knowledge of the good requires that we penetrate deeply into the mysteries of wisdom, and this is inconvenient, for it requires that we learn a great deal.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 127 – The Significance of Spiritual Research For Moral Action – Bielefeld, 6th March, 1911
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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