{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus the person who seeks his *I* along the path of thought may, in a philosophical sense, have a clear enough picture of his *I*, but it will not offer him much satisfaction. Even if he fails, through simple reflection, to recognize that the mental picture of his *I* vanishes every night, it cannot give him any feeling of real security. His inner being as a whole, appearing more substantial than mere ideation, soon makes him aware of the unsatisfactory nature of the merely depicted *I*. What is found along this path in one's search for the *I* is, so to speak, too rarefied. 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Ich habe schon öfter erwähnt, daß dies für jeden normalen Menschen jeden Tag widerlegt wird, denn er kann gar nicht wissen, bloß durch die äußere Betrachtung, wie es sich verhält mit diesem Ich, dieser Ich-Vorstellung, in der Zeit vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen. Er kann eigentlich von diesem Ich in den Vorstellungen nur für alle die Wachzustände, die er durchgemacht hat, reden und muß immer die Kette für alle die Schlafzustände unterbrochen denken. Das werden Sie leicht einsehen können, denn es ergibt sich das aus einer einfachen Überlegung. Derjenige, der also glaubt, das Ich, das lebe in dem Vorstellungsleben so, daß man es in den Vorstellungen finden könne, der sollte sich vor allen Dingen ganz klarmachen: Ja, meine Vorstellungen gehen mir eigentlich mit jedem Einschlafen verloren; da geht mir auch das Vorstellungs-Ich, für das Bewußtsein wenigstens, verloren. Etwas, was jeder Tag in die Nacht des Nichtwahrnehmbaren hinuntertauchen kann, das kann man eigentlich nicht so bezeichnen, wie wenn es ein sicheres Sein, ein sicheres Dasein wäre. So daß der Mensch, wenn er auf dem Wege des Vorstellens sein Ich sucht, sich philosophisch recht klar sein kann: so und so ist der Ich-Gedanke. Aber dieser Ich-Gedanke wird ihn nicht glücklich machen. Dieser Ich-Gedanke kann ihm auch keine besondere Sicherheit geben, auch wenn er nicht darauf kommt durch die einfache Überlegung, daß dieser Ich-Gedanke jeden Tag abreißt. Das ganze innere Wesen des Menschen, das wahrer ist als unser Vorstellen, das bringt es schon zum Ausdruck, daß man zunächst bei der bloßen Ich-Vorstellung unbefriedigt ist, wenn man das Ich sucht. Es ist einem zu wenig, ich möchte sagen, etwas zu Dünnes, was man da findet, wenn man das Ich bloß im Vorstellungsleben sucht. 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