One must
acknowledge that intelligence holds sway in nature. And if you really
study nature, you can find this intelligence holding sway everywhere.
And you will then think more humbly about your own intelligence, for
first of all, it is not as great as the intelligence ruling in nature,
and secondly, it is only like a little bit of water that one has drawn
from a lake and put into a water jug. The human being, in fact, is just
such a water jug, that has drawn intelligence from nature. Intelligence
is everywhere in nature; everything, everywhere is wisdom. A person who
ascribes intelligence exclusively to himself is about as clever as
someone who declares: You’re saying that there is water out there in the
lake or in the brook? Nonsense! There is no water in them. Only in my
jug is there any water. The jug created the water. So, the human being
thinks that he creates intelligence, whereas he only draws intelligence
from the universal sea of intelligence.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 220 – Fall and Redemption – Dornach, January 21st, 1923
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