The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

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.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.

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.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.