{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-05-23/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now it may be that in our present materialistic age the human being no longer has any notion that idealism or spirituality may be expressed in the speech. People today usually have the idea that speech is intended to express only the external, the tangibly-objective. The feeling that *ideals* may be expressed in the speech has almost entirely disappeared. For this reason, it is also true that people today generally find so “unintelligible” what is said to them about “spirit”. For what do people say to themselves when spirit is mentioned? They admit that “words” are being used, but of these words people know only that they indicate what can be grasped or seen. The idea that words may also signify something else, something supersensible, invisible, people no longer like at all. That may be one way in which people regard speech; but the other may, of course, be that people shall find the way again to idealism even in words, even in language, knowing that a soul-spiritual experience may sound through each word, as it were.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Pneumatosophy: The Riddles of the Inner Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-23","location":null,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Frances E. 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Sie sagen sich: Ja, der spricht da in Worten. — Aber von diesen Worten wissen die Leute nur, daß sie das bedeuten, was man angreifen oder sehen kann. Daß die Worte auch hindeuten können auf irgend etwas, was übersinnlich, unsichtbar ist, das mögen die Leute gar nicht mehr. Und das kann die eine Art sein, wie die Menschen zur Sprache stehen. Die andere kann aber allerdings diese sein, daß die Menschen sich wiederum hinfinden zum Idealismus schon in den Worten, schon in der Sprache, so daß die Menschen wissen, daß gewissermaßen dutch jedes Wort durchtönen kann ein seelisch-geistiges Erleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p014"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-05-23/p016"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":177,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9860,"original_word_count":9624,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frances E. 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