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Intoxicated ideas, in which they only give way to their emotions and passions, and confront the world in such a way that they do not really understand things, but either love or hate everything; and judge everything according to their love or hatred, their sympathy or antipathy. For it is only when, on the one hand, a man makes efforts in his soul to acquire spiritual ideas, and on the other develops his feelings for the great concerns of the world, that he can attain to clear-sighted ideas and conceptions. When we lift ourselves up to the thoughts given us in Spiritual Science of the great connections concerning which the materialistic view of the world merely laughs: of the ages of Saturn, Sun and Moon and of our connection with the Universe, when we fructify our moral feelings with the great goals of humanity, we can then rise above all the emotions displayed in sympathy or antipathy for anything in the world around us. 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Blinde Begriffe, indem sie eigentlich von allem, was geschieht, sich gängeln lassen, und wenn sie eingreifen, das in der möglichst ungeschicktesten Weise tun! Rauschbegriffe, indem sie sich nur ihren Affekten, ihren Leidenschaften überlassen und sich der Welt so gegenüberstellen, daß sie eigentlich die Dinge nicht begreifen, sondern entweder alles lieben oder alles hassen, alles nur nach Liebe oder Haß, nach Sympathie und Antipathie beurteilen. Das ist insbesondere im materialistischen Zeitalter so. Denn nur dadurch, daß der Mensch auf der einen Seite seine Seele anstrengt, um zu geistigen Begriffen zu kommen, und auf der anderen Seite seine Gefühle entwickelt an den großen Angelegenheiten der Welt, dadurch kommt er zu klarsehenden Begriffen und Vorstellungen. 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