{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-07-09/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We know more, if I may express it paradoxically, than we are allowed to keep to ourselves, and our needs intersect in this respect. Whoever shares something with another should in turn receive something from another. It can't be any other way. So we shower each other with spiritual life, we pour out our riches on each other. That too is a peculiarity of this spiritual life. We have too much. We bring with us too much for this material world, because the spiritual life that we bring with us as thinking beings is at the same time destined for the supersensible. Because the supersensible lives itself out in it, it floods this physical world, as it were, like a flood. It is quite different when we turn our attention to economic life. There it is not the case that we so easily communicate our thoughts to others. First of all, we often do not want to do so. If we wanted to communicate thoughts of economic life to others as easily as we do with thoughts of pure teaching life, no one would patent anything, no one would keep a trade secret. The desire to communicate is not as great as in the field of spiritual culture. And you only have to imagine what the situation is in economic life to immediately see that there is no such flood of ideas passing from one person to another, but that things are quite different there.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","site_heading":"Spiritual Crisis, Pre-existence, and Social Renewal","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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Weil darinnen das Übersinnliche sich auslebt, so überschwemmt es gleichsam flutartig diese physische Welt. Ganz anders ist es, wenn wir den Blick auf das wirtschaftliche Leben richten. Da ist es nicht so, daß wir so leicht die Gedanken dem anderen mitteilen. Erstens wollen wir das oftmals nicht. Wenn wir Gedanken des wirtschaftlichen Lebens anderen so leicht mitteilen wollten wie die Gedanken des reinen lehrhaften Lebens, so würde niemand sich irgend etwas patentieren lassen, es würde niemand ein Geschäftsgeheimnis bewahren. Da ist das Mitteilungsbedürfnis gar nicht so groß wie auf dem Gebiete der geistigen Kultur. Und Sie brauchen sich nur auszumalen, wie es im wirtschaftlichen Leben steht, dann werden Sie sogleich sehen, daß da gar nicht eine solche Gedankenflut von einem zum anderen geht, sondern daß sich da die Dinge ganz anders verhalten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/198/1920-07-09/p015"}],"english":["GA 198/1920-07-09/p015"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":228,"en_words":245,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9110,"original_word_count":8977,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Healing Factors for the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA198/English/SOL2024/19200709p01.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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