Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

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.

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.

Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.