{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, if we keep to this mood in the matter, the following may perhaps be of use. You see, there are two fundamental feelings at the base of all striving for knowledge, of every kind of striving towards spiritual experience. One of these feelings comes from man having to think, having to form ideas, as he lives his life between birth and death in the physical body. I think you will agree that we should not be complete human beings, were we not to think about things and about ourselves. Then, too, if we wish to make our lives fuller in the physical body, between birth and death, we have not only to think but also to will. And feeling lies midway between thinking and willing; sometimes it partakes more of thinking and forming ideas, sometimes more of willing. Hence, for the purpose of our proposed study, we may ignore feeling, and consider the one pole of forming ideas, thinking, and then turn to the other pole of human activity, the willing. Man is a thinking and a willing being. But there are special features about this thinking and willing. The trivially-minded, average man looks upon what can be attained as the attainment of a goal if, on the one hand, he thinks as clearly and forcibly as possible, in his own opinion, at least, and if he wills in accordance with his needs. What distinguishes the man of learning who is fundamentally honest, is that he finally admits, when he tries to advance on the path of thinking, that with his thinking in the physical body he still only goes a certain distance towards his goal.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-01-19","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"UNK1930","book_title":"The Problem of Faust","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/19190119p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p005"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p005","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Das Fühlen liegt eigentlich zwischen dem Denken und Wollen in der Mitte darinnen. Es ist manchmal mehr ein Denken und Vorstellen, manchmal mehr ein Wollen. Daher kann man, wenn man diese Betrachtung, auf die wir jetzt hinsteuern wollen, anstellen will, von dem Fühlen absehen, nach dem einen Pol des Denkens und Vorstellens hinblicken und auch nach dem andern Pol der menschlichen Betätigung, nach dem Wollen. Der Mensch ist einmal ein denkendes und ein wollendes Wesen. Aber mit diesem Denken und Wollen hat es doch noch seine ganz besondere Bewandtnis. Der Trivialmensch, der gewöhnliche Durchschnittsbürger, betrachtet schon dasjenige, zu dem man kommen kann, als etwas Erreichtes, wenn er auf der einen Seite — wenigstens nach seinen Vorstellungen — möglichst klar denkt, möglichst nach seinen Vorstellungen eindringlich denkt, und wenn er nach seinem Bedürfnisse entsprechend will. 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