{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 179/1917-12-15/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But this will show you that when a human being of 28 gives the impression of one whose understanding has developed to the age of 28, only one fourth of this understanding is really his own. It cannot be helped; when we have a certain quantity of understanding at 28, only a quarter of this is our own; the rest belongs to the universe, to the world in which we are submerged through our astral body, through our etheric body, and through our physical body. But we only know directly something of these bodies through ideas, through sense perceptions, in other words, again within the ego. This means that during our development as human beings between birth and death we are indeed mere apparitions of a reality. We make the impression of being four times as clever as we really are. This is true. All we possess, in addition to this one fourth, we owe to what holds sway in the historical, social, and moral processes within that world we dream away and sleep away. Dream and sleep impulses, which we have in common with the universe, seethe up, above the horizon of our being and fructify this fourth part of our understanding and soul, and make it four times as strong as it really is.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-12-15","location":null,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/179/1917-12-15/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Das heißt, wenn wir als Menschen uns entwickeln zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode, so sind wir eigentlich rechte Scheinwesen der Wirklichkeit. Wir machen den Eindruck von viermal so gescheiten Wesen, als wir in Wirklichkeit sind. Das ist wahr! Alles, was wir außer jenem Viertel haben, das verdanken wir dem, was da waltet im historischen, im sozialen, im moralischen Wirken jener Welt, die wir verträumen, die wir verschlafen. 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