Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

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

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

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

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

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.