{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 20/c02-01/p005","lang":"en","edition":"MP1990","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is within the soul itself that Descartes finds the point upon which he can base conviction: The mental pictures form for myself of the world's course are no dream; they live a life that is a part in the life of the whole world. Even though I can doubt everything, there is *one* thing I cannot doubt, for to express doubt in *it* would belie my own words. For is it not certain that when I give myself over to doubt *I am thinking*? I could not doubt if I did not think. Therefore I cannot possibly doubt my own experience in thinking. If I wanted, through doubt, to kill thinking: it would just rise up living again out of the doubt. My thinking lives, therefore; it does not stand in some dream world; it stands in the *world of being* ( *Sein*). If I could believe that everything else, even my own body, gave me only the illusion of *being*, still my thinking does not deceive me. Just as true as it is that I think, it is true that I *am*, insofar as I think. It was from sentiments such as these that Descartes' “I think, therefore I am” ( *Cogito ergo sum*) rang out into the world. And whoever has an ear for such things will also hear the power of this statement resounding in all subsequent thinkers until Kant.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Idealism as an Awakening of the Soul: Johann Gottlieb Fichte","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/20/c02-01/p005","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"no_original_to_compare","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1990"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1990","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/20/c02-01/p005"}],"witness_completeness":{"ratio":null,"band":"no_original","note":null,"word_count":3870,"original_word_count":null,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}