{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 205/1921-07-08/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It must be emphasized again and again: it is not enough for something to be logical. Einsteinism is logical, but it is not in touch with reality. All relativism is not in touch with reality as such. Thinking in touch with reality begins only where one can no longer leave reality by thinking. Isn't it true that today man reads, or listens, I should say, quite calmly, when Einstein says, as an example: What would happen if a clock were to fly out into the cosmos at the speed of light? Yes, a person today listens to that quite calmly. A clock flying out into the cosmos at the speed of light is, for someone who lives in reality in his thinking, lives in reality in his soul, roughly the same as if someone were to say: What happens to a person when I cut off his head, and in addition, his right hand and his left hand, or his right arm and so on? He simply ceases to be a human being. In the same way, what one is still justified in imagining when one talks about a clock flying out into the cosmos at the speed of light immediately ceases to be a clock! It is not possible to imagine that. If one wants to arrive at valid thinking, the reality must be adhered to. Something can be logical and ingenious to an enormous degree, but it does not necessarily follow that it is in accordance with reality. And it is thinking in accordance with reality that we need in this age. For abstract thinking ultimately really leads us to no longer seeing reality at all because of all the abstractions. And today humanity admires the abstractions that are presented to it in this way. It does not matter whether these abstractions are somehow logically substantiated or the like. What matters is that man learns to grow together with reality, so that he can no longer say anything other than what is actually spoken from reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eighth Lecture","site_heading":"Cosmic Thought and Human Consciousness: Beyond Logic","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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Eine Uhr, die mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit in den Kosmos hinausfliegt, das ist ungefähr für denjenigen, der wirklichkeitsgemäß in seinem Denken lebt, wirklichkeitsgemäß in seiner Seele lebt, ungefähr so, wie wenn einer sagt: Wie wird der Mensch, wenn ich ihm den Kopf abschneide, und dazu ihm die rechte Hand und die linke Hand oder den rechten Arm und so weiter abschneide? — Er hört eben auf, ein Mensch zu sein. So hört dasjenige, was man noch berechtigt ist vorzustellen, wenn man davon redet, daß eine Uhr mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit in den Kosmos hinausfliege, gleich auf, eine Uhr zu sein! Es ist nicht möglich, das vorzustellen. Das Wirklichkeitsgemäße muß festgehalten werden, wenn man zu einem gültigen Denken kommen will. Logisch, geistvoll kann etwas in ungeheurem Maße sein, aber es braucht noch nicht wirklichkeitsgemäß zu sein. Ein wirklichkeitsgemäßes Denken aber brauchen wir in diesem Zeitalter. Denn das abstrakte Denken führt uns endlich wirklich dazu, eben die Wirklichkeit vor lauter Abstraktionen nicht mehr zu sehen. Und heute bewundert die Menschheit die Abstraktionen, die ihr in dieser Weise dargeboten werden. Daß man diese Abstraktionen irgendwie logisch belegt oder dergleichen, darauf kommt es nicht an. Es kommt darauf an, daß der Mensch lernt, mit der Wirklichkeit zusammenzuwachsen, so daß er nicht mehr etwas anderes sagen kann als dasjenige, was eben auch aus der Wirklichkeit heraus gesprochen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/205/1921-07-08/p034"}],"english":["GA 205/1921-07-08/p034"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":311,"en_words":338,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5560,"original_word_count":5315,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Humanity, World Soul and World Spirit I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA205/English/SOL2024/19210708p01.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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