A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.

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 smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.

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