When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it.

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