The Four Principles

GA 265/the_four_principles/p025 ·1906-06-26 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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He who wants to have power must kill speech. In order to have clairvoyant thoughts, we must, like a blessed God, hover above pleasure and pain. To regulate the will, we must discard power, and to regulate power accordingly, we must learn to be silent.

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