Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.

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.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

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