For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.

In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

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

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.