Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

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

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.

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

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

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.