{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The need for greater subtlety of thinking is evident in all spheres of life. We shall not progress unless thinking becomes more alive and mobile so that it will cease to cling to crude externalities. There never have been more obstacles to making thinking more alive. For that very reason it is all the more necessary to promote science of one spirit. Only by working with subtler concepts does thinking become active and mobile. Through their very nature, the concepts of spiritual science have the power to strengthen the human I. What is longed for today may be satisfied by other means. But only spiritual science can give the human being real inner strength by awakening in him lucid concepts that are not so readily available, concepts which, just because they do not depict life's external aspects, make us inwardly strong, which means capable of recognizing the reality, the essence of things.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"The I Across Incarnations: Thought, Will, and Hidden Connections","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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Wir kommen wirklich nicht weiter, wenn solche Subtilisierung des Denkens nicht eintritt, wenn das Denken nicht beweglicher wird, wenn es immer kleben will an dem grob Äußerlichen. Und wenn auch heute der Widerstand gegen diese Subtilisierung des Denkens am stärksten ist, so muß um so mehr stark gearbeitet werden in der Sache der Geisteswissenschaft, denn die kommt ohnedies nicht zustande, wenn man nicht zu subtileren Vorstellungen seine Zuflucht nimmt; die ist aber auch geeignet, das Ich des Menschen durch das, was sie ist, stärker zu machen. Alles übrige kann ja den Menschen auf den Weg führen, nach dem die heutige Sehnsucht hinstrebt; aber wirkliche Kraft geben kann nur die Geisteswissenschaft, gerade durch das, was man ihr besonders vorwirft: daß sie ja lauter Vorstellungen erweckt, die eigentlich nicht so recht anwendbar sind, sich im Leben nicht äußerlich darstellen lassen. Aber gerade durch das, daß sie sich nicht äußerlich darstellen lassen im Leben, machen sie uns innerlich stark und kräftig, das heißt, wirklichkeitsbefreundet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":175,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p036"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p045"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":175,"en_words":152,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8241,"original_word_count":8922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Aspects of Human Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/19170710p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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