{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 217/1922-10-13/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But we are now living in the epoch of the consciousness soul. The first treasures we acquire for the soul in this epoch consist in intellectual concepts, in abstractions. Today even the farmer loves abstractions. How could it be otherwise, for he indulges in the most abstract reading—the village newspaper and much else besides! Our riches consist really in abstractions. And therefore we must free ourselves from this kind of thinking, through developing what I spoke of yesterday. We must purify our thinking and mould it, into will. To this end we must make our individuality stronger and stronger, and this happens when we work our way through to pure thinking. I do not say this out of idle vanity, but because that is how I see it. Whoever works his way through to pure thinking as I have described in my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity will find that this does not bring him simply to the possession of a few concepts which make up a philosophic system, but that it lays hold of his own individuality, of his pre-earthly existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XI","site_heading":"Head Culture and Whole-Being Education in Modern Childhood","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1922-10-13","location":null,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/217/1922-10-13/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"René M. 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Der erste Reichtum, den wir in diesem Zeitalter für unsere Seelen erwerben, besteht in intellektuellen Begriffen, besteht eigentlich in Abstraktionen. Heute ist ja schon der Bauer ein Abstraktling. Wie sollte es auch anders sein, da er sich der allerabstraktesten Lektüre hingibt, der Dorfzeitung und manchem anderen. Unser Reichtum besteht eben in Abstraktionen. Daher müssen wir aus diesem Denken durch die Entwickelung, die ich gestern angedeutet habe, heraus, indem wir das Denken ganz reinigen und es zum Willen machen, zum Willen gestalten. Wir müssen uns dazu durchringen, unsere Individualität immer kräftiger zu machen, und das erreichen wir nur, wenn wir uns zu diesem reinen Denken durcharbeiten. Ich sage das nicht aus einer eitlen Albernheit heraus, sondern weil mir das so erscheint. Wer sich zu einem solchen reinen Denken durcharbeitet, wie ich es in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» angedeutet habe, wird finden, daß man es da ganz und gar nicht bringt zu einem Haben von einigen Begriffen, die ein philosophisches System ausmachen, sondern daß es sich um ein Ergreifen der menschlichen Individualität und ihres vorirdischen Daseins handelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/217/1922-10-13/p014"}],"english":["GA 217/1922-10-13/p014"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":183,"en_words":181,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5195,"original_word_count":5006,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"René M. 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