I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

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

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

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.