{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 177/1917-10-13/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We now come to the application of this to reality itself. Please, consider this carefully! I am going to say something rather strange, for I have to apply unrealistic thinking to reality. Unrealistic thinking is, of course, also part of reality. The unrealistic thinking which has developed over the last three or four centuries, and the fact that as such it has become part of reality in human life, has resulted in an unreal structure which is always self-contradictory. People are doing alright, one might say, with regard to the physical and material world, for the physical world ignores them, and they can therefore have as many wrong ideas as they like. This makes them—forgive the paradoxical way of putting this—into billy-goats who keep butting against the brick wall of reality with their horns in their insistence on thinking about the physical world in abstract terms. We can see this with many ideologies; they keep coming up against the brick wall of reality. And they are sometimes just as stubborn as goats, these ideologies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Abstraction and Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-10-13","location":null,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/177/1917-10-13/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Ich muß jetzt etwas Merkwürdiges sagen: Ich muß die Anwendung des unwirklichen Denkens auf die Wirklichkeit machen, denn selbstverständlich steht ja auch das unwirkliche Denken in der Wirklichkeit drinnen. Und so hat sich allmählich durch das unwirkliche Denken, das sich im Laufe der letzten drei bis vier Jahrhunderte herausgebildet hat, durch das Einleben dieses unwirklichkeitsgemäßen Denkens in die Wirklichkeit, im menschlichen Zusammenleben selber eine unwirkliche Struktur ergeben, eine in sich fortwährend widerspruchsvolle Struktur ergeben. Der Natur gegenüber, könnte man sagen, hat es der Mensch gut, denn er mag noch so verkehrt denken - die Natur richtet sich nicht nach ihm. Und so wird er - verzeihen Sie den paradoxen Ausspruch -, wenn er sich starr, abstrakt in seinem Denken der Natur gegenüber verhalten will, zum Bock, der immer mit seinen Hörnern sich stößt an der Wirklichkeit. Das sehen wir ja auch in vielen sogenannten Weltauffassungen, die sich mit ihren Hörneransätzen stoßen an der Wirklichkeit. Die sind auch zuweilen so eigensinnig wie die Böcke, diese Weltanschauungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/177/1917-10-13/p004"}],"english":["GA 177/1917-10-13/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":182,"en_words":174,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6747,"original_word_count":6463,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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