Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

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.

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

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

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.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.