Authority/Believe

People generally say that they do not believe anything on authority. But when it comes to the point of crediting what is taught from the professorial chair, then people are today frightfully credulous, they believe everything that is taught.

Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 349 – Colour and the Human Races: The Nature of Color – Dornach, 21st February 1923

Translated by M. Cotterell