In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity’s revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
Goethe’s thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.
It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
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.
Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.