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.

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.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

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

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

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

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.