{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-20/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We will not go on just yet to what we can learn from Spiritual Science; that will come in time. For the moment we will remain at the point which can be reached by thinking only, and we shall have to say to ourselves: “On *this* ground, we cannot manage to lead any doubter to the ‘lion-in-general.’ It really can't be done.” Here we meet with one of the difficulties which we simply have to admit. For if we refuse to recognize this difficulty in the domain of ordinary thought, we shall not admit the difficulty of human cognition in general.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Thought as Gateway to Cosmic Understanding","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wir wollen einmal beim Denken bleiben, wollen bei dem bleiben, was dutch das Denken erreicht werden kann, und wir werden uns sagen müssen: Wenn wir auf diesem Boden bleiben wollen, so geht es eben nicht recht, daß wir irgendeinen Zweifler zum «Löwen im allgemeinen» hinführen. Das geht wirklich nicht. Hier liegt eine der Schwierigkeiten vor, die man einfach zugeben muß. 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