81. On the Formation of Destiny
GA 246/1923-04-12/p016
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
As children we are the wisest, but we do not know it. We build on ourselves, on the inside of our body with the wisdom of the gods. Even the wisdom we have only needs to be digested, we have to acquire it during sleep. We should actually look at our sleeping time with the greatest reverence.
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