1. First Steps towards Imaginative Knowledge
GA 227/1923-08-19/p013
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English
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To put this in other words: A man in his sense-life is always given up to the moment, and in some cases of illness it is possible for him to detach his immediate existence in space from his existence as a whole—but he is then no longer man in the full sense.
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