Rudolph Steiner Bizarre-o-ness

Rudolph Steiner actually said:
“The potato takes little care of lung and heart. It reaches the head, but only, as I said, the lower head, not the upper head. It does go into the lower head, where one thinks and exercises critical faculties. Therefore, you can see, in earlier times there were fewer journalists. There was no printing industry yet. Think of the amount of thought expended daily in this world in our time, just to bring the newspapers out! All that thinking, it is much too much, it is not at all necessary — and we have to thank the potato diet for that!…”
from http://rsquotes.blogspot.com/ whose source is a an archived lecture from 1924