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

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.

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

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

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.