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In other words, we must try to acquire knowledge for the sake of the Gods, just as wheat also grows in order that human beings may find nourishment.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Human Knowledge and Its Significance for Man and the Cosmos","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-08-07","location":null,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/170/1916-08-07/p021","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Riddle of Humanity","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA170/English/Singles/19160807p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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Und das andere, wenn wir es mit dem richtigen Gefühle begleiten, wie ich es eben charakterisiert habe, verwenden wir dazu, daß höhere geistige Wesenheiten eine bestimmte Nahrung durch unsere gefaßten Begriffe empfangen. Wir suchen ein Wissen zu erwerben für die Götter, so wie der Weizen auch für die Nahrung der Menschen wächst. Es ist schon so; aber diese Bestimmung muß ihm erst angemessen werden. So muß unserem Wissen durch unser Fühlen erst die Bestimmung, von der eben gesprochen worden ist, angemessen werden. 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