Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.