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.

He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.