Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
Intuition is the conscious experience – in pure spirit – of a purely spiritual content.
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.
Sounds are the echo of the “Harmony of the Spheres” which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.
Where God’s presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment.
These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.
To understand the nature of love – that is to be a true Christian.
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.