Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p. 303)
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
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.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.