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In his denunciation of a school of thought, with which I cannot sympathize either, the critic uses the following image in all seriousness: He who speaks of this school of thought is like a clown who climbs a free-standing ladder and then, having reached the top, wants to pull it up to himself. He will tumble down. — But I beg you: How do you do that if you have set up a ladder vertically and climbed up it and then pull it up to you and then tumble down? How do you carry out such a thought without being thoughtless? Most people do not notice this hollow thought because today there is little practice in logic. Otherwise one would notice that today in every second book on every twentieth page such unthoughts are found. This must also be mentioned because it is characteristic of how people think today, how thinking is suggestively influenced. I have given this example not without significance, because for those who can think, the whole book is written with the same logic, but one does not notice it. Many will not even notice the impossibility of this thought, but rather, as intellectual life is now, such a literary phenomenon will be trumpeted as something tremendously significant and many will believe that this is the case, study it, and from the sum of those who can think in such a way, the opponents of spiritual science are recruited.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Munich Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-12-10","location":null,"word_count":361,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/148/1913-12-10/p010","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Fifth Gospel III","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/SOL2024/19131210p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Abgekanzelt wird da die ganze Weltanschauungsvergangenheit der Menschheit. Bei der Abkanzelung einer Weltanschauungsströmung, die mir auch nicht sympathisch sein kann, gebraucht der Kritiker ganz ernsthaft folgendes Bild: Der da von dieser Weltanschauung spricht, ist wie ein Clown, der auf eine freistehende Leiter steigt und sie dann, oben angekommen, zu sich hinaufziehen wollte. Er wird herunterpurzeln. — Aber ich bitte Sie: Wie macht man das, wenn man eine Leiter senkrecht aufgestellt hat und hinaufgestiegen ist und dann oben sie zu sich hinaufzieht und dann herunterpurzelt? Wie vollzieht man einen solchen Gedanken, ohne gedankenlos zu sein? Diesen hohlen Gedanken bemerken die meisten Leute nicht, weil heute wenig Übung in der Logik da ist. Sonst würde man bemerken, daß heute in jedem zweiten Buch auf jeder zwanzigsten Seite solche Ungedanken sich finden. Das muß auch einmal erwähnt werden, weil es charakteristisch ist dafür, wie heute gedacht wird, wie das Denken suggestiv beeinflußt wird. Ich habe dieses Beispiel nicht ohne Bedeutung angeführt, denn für den der denken kann, ist das ganze Buch mit derselben Logik geschrieben, aber man merkt es nicht. Viele werden nicht einmal die Unmöglichkeit dieses Gedankens bemerken, sondern so, wie das Geistesleben heute nun einmal ist, wird eine solche literarische Erscheinung als etwas ungeheuer Bedeutendes ausposaunt und viele glauben, daß das so ist, studieren es, und aus der Summe derer, die in einer solchen Weise denken können, rekrutieren sich die Gegner der Geisteswissenschaft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1913-12-10/p011"}],"english":["GA 148/1913-12-10/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":334,"en_words":361,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6704,"original_word_count":6463,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Fifth Gospel III","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/SOL2024/19131210p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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