Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it.

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

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

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.

One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.