“You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relation...” — Rudolf Steiner Quote

“You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.”

“We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.”

“Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.”

“We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.”

“I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.”

“It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.”