{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1917-05-11/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A world view that emerges in this way from the deepest needs of the time, but which so thoroughly contradicts what people of the present believe, will only slowly and gradually find its way into the souls of men. Human souls cling to what is familiar; human souls prefer to hear their own water-clear thinking from the pulpit and to be able to say of what they hear: “I have thought that for a long time.” The anthroposophical teachings that are emerging in the present are certainly not truths that have been “thought for a long time”. But in the eyes of many people this is precisely the main mistake, that they cannot say to themselves: “I have thought that for a long time” — and that they do not want to say to themselves: “If I dig deep enough within myself, I will not express a personal opinion, but something that is connected with the developmental factors of humanity.” — We will come back to such developmental factors of humanity many times during my stay in Stuttgart this time. So it is understandable that many obstacles and hindrances arise when people try to approach anthroposophy, to approach spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ninth Lecture","site_heading":"Soul's Independence and Spiritual Science's Defense Against Slander","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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Aber das ist in den Augen vieler Menschen gerade der Hauptfehler, daß sie sich nicht sagen können: Das habe ich schon lange gedacht -, und daß sie sich nicht sagen wollen: Wenn ich recht tief in meinem Inneren schürfe, dann wird da nichts ausgesprochen, was eine persönliche Meinung ist, sondern was zusammenhängt gerade mit den Entwickelungsfaktoren der Menschheit. — Auf solche Entwickelungsfaktoren der Menschheit werden wir während meines diesmaligen Aufenthaltes in Stuttgart noch mannigfaltig zurückkommen. 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