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.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

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

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

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.

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