{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-09/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The anthroposophical conception of the universe leads directly into a real spiritual knowledge of the matter. Do not such things as Thinking, Feeling and Willing appear to human knowledge as terribly bare abstractions? Man does not investigate himself thoroughly enough. He does not ask himself what these things are for him to which he applies the words. So much has become mere phrase. One should really ask oneself conscientiously, when using the word Thinking, whether it presents any clear idea—not to speak of Feeling and Willing. But our speech becomes clear and plain, directly we pass from the mere making of phrases, the using of lofty words, and go back to *pictures*; even when we take just that one picture for Thinking—putting the finger to the side of the nose! We do not need to do it always, but we know that this gesture is often naturally made when we have to think hard, just as we point the finger to the chin when we want to indicate we are paying attention! We enter this plane precisely because we wish to judge there concerning something to which we are related. We bisect our organism as it were into right and left; for we really act quite differently with our right and left sense-organs. This we can appreciate if we observe that with the left sense-organ we undertake as it were, the handling of outer objects; and in our thinking too, there is a sort of handling or feeling of external objects. With the right sense-organ we as it were ‘feel our feeling’ of them. It is then that they first become our own. We could never have attained to the ego-concept if we were not able to perceive, together with what we experience on the right, also that which we experience on the left. By simply laying the hands one over the other we have a picture of the ego-concept. It is indeed true that by beginning to use clear images instead of living merely in phraseology, man will become inwardly richer and will gain the faculty of visualising the Universe in greater detail.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":"Human Nature and Cosmos: Recovering Living Knowledge","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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Es sollte jemand wirklich nur sich gewissenhaft fragen, wenn er das Wort Denken ausspricht, ob er denn wirklich klar sich etwas dabei vorstellt, gar nicht zu reden von Fühlen und Wollen. Aber bedenken Sie, wie das phrasenhafte Sich-Ergehen in Worten in Anschauung übergeht, wenn man wirklich zum Bilde zurückkehrt. Wenn man auch nur das eine Bild hat für das Denken, daß man sich an die Nase greift - man braucht es ja nicht immer zu tun, aber man weiß, daß diese Bewegung immer in der Situation ausgeführt werden will, wenn wit denken sollen; oder wir deuten auch auf unser Kinn, wenn wir aufpassen sollen -, also, wir greifen gerade in diese Ebene hinein, weil wir da auch urteilen wollen über dasjenige, dem wir zuhören. Wir teilen gewissermaßen unseren Organismus in eine linke und rechte Hälfte, weil wir immer mit dem linken Sinnesorgan eigentlich etwas anderes verrichten als mit dem rechten. Wie Sie mit dem linken Sinnesorgan etwas anderes verrichten als mit dem rechten, das können Sie ja daran ermessen, daß Sie eigentlich immer mit dem linken Sinnesorgan etwas tun, was auch im Denken wie ein Befühlen des Gegenstandes ist. Mit dem rechten Sinnesorgan befühlen Sie gewissermaßen wiederum Ihr Befühlen. Dadurch wird es erst Ihr Eigentum. Sie würden ja niemals zu der Ich-Vorstellung kommen können, wenn Sie nicht dasjenige, was Sie links erleben, wiederum wahrnehmen könnten mit dem, was Sie rechts erleben. Indem Sie einfach Ihre Hände übereinanderlegen, ist das ein Bild des Ich-Vorstellens. 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