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

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

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.

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.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

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.

Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.