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Before that there was no actual life of thought. As my book sets out, one can speak of a beginning, of a birth of thought-life in this age of ancient Greece.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Perception of the Nature of Thought","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-10","location":null,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/161/1915-01-10/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"M. 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In Sokrates, in Plato und auch in Aristoteles lebte der Gedanke in ganz anderer Weise als in einem modernen Menschen, und dieses Gedankenleben ist im 7. oder 6. Jahrhundert vor der christlichen Zeitrechnung im Grunde erst erwacht. Vorher gab es nicht so recht ein eigentliches Gedankenleben. 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