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It is also extraordinarily easy when the facts of Spiritual Science are given out to say: “How does so and so know that; where does he get his knowledge?”—when these same people are not even willing to investigate the origin of facts they themselves often advance concerning it and form their judgment entirely in accordance with their own knowledge. It is not difficult to say: “How can he know that? I don't know it” and then to declare in a high and mighty way: “What I do not know no one else knows, others can at best only believe it.” Such a judgement comes about merely because one refuses to go into the sources from which, particularly at the present time, the knowledge Spiritual Science has to be drawn.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Es ist auch ungemein leicht zu sagen: Woher weiß denn der oder jener, welcher geisteswissenschaftlich etwas mitteilt, woher weiß er das? - wenn man nicht darauf eingehen will, das zu durchschauen, was er selbst oftmals darüber vorgebracht hat, von woher er diese Dinge weiß, und man lediglich das Urteil sich bildet nach dem, was man selber weiß. Das ist ja nicht schwer zu sagen: Woher kann der das wissen? Ich weiß es doch nicht! — und dann souverän zu erklären: Dasjenige, was ich nicht weiß, das weiß auch kein anderer, da kann ein anderer höchstens doch nur noch glauben! — Aber ein solches Urteil kommt nur dadurch zustande, daß man sich eben gar nicht darauf einläßt, auf die Quellen einzugehen, aus denen insbesondere in der heutigen Zeit geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse geschöpft werden müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/188/1919-01-03/p003"}],"english":["GA 188/1919-01-03/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":225,"en_words":223,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8259,"original_word_count":7890,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Violet E. 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