Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

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

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

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.

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

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.