We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.

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

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

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

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.

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