{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 236/1924-05-04/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I say all this to show you how important it is to take one particular thing in its full significance, and to regard as insignificant what frequently presents itself in the sense-world as the most evident, the most essential, the greatest, etc. In our time, as I said, there have appeared many strange and remarkable personalities who stand before us without our being able to arrive at any complete survey of the karmic connections. Just in the case of such personalities it is a question of observing in them what is striking and significant. The fact that somebody was a great artist, for example, is something which may possibly be determined only in the very smallest measure by his karma. But *what* exactly he does in his art, how he conducts himself in it, these are things that are specially determined in karma. 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Aber das alles soll ja nur darstellen, wie wichtig es ist, gerade dies oder jenes als bedeutsam zu nehmen, und als unbedeutsam etwas zu nehmen, was oftmals in der Sinneswelt als das Anschaulichste, als das Wesenslichste, als das Größte und so weiter auftritt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-04/p030"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-04/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"In unserer Zeit, sagte ich, sind ja mancherlei merkwürdige Persönlichkeiten aufgetreten, die dastehen, ohne daß man den Zusammenhang voll überblicken kann. Da handelt es sich dann darum, gerade bei solchen Persönlichkeiten auf dasjenige hinschauen zu können, was bei ihnen eklatant, bedeutsam ist. Daß einer ein großer Künstler wird zum Beispiel, das ist etwas, was zum kleinsten Teile bedingt zu sein braucht in seinem Karma. 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