{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"With this thinking, my dear friends, it is exactly as if a man were striving towards a goal; he cannot see it though knowing in what direction it lies. He wants to hasten towards it, but although he knows where the goal must be, it is wrapped in darkness. He imagines it will only become clear when he reaches it. And while he is feeling that he is still nowhere near the goal but a considerable distance from it, some being seems to seize from from behind, and to stop him going farther. And he says: Thinking, the forming of ideas, drives me in a certain direction, then I am stopped; were I to pursue the path of thought in this direction, I should never be able to reach the goal thinking itself has indicated.—Thus he comes to one of the boundaries to which he is by nature subject in the life between birth and death. And it may be said that whoever has never experienced the suffering and blows of fate arising from the goal of thought, has certainly no very deep cognitional life. If, by the inner constitution of his soul, a man can fancy he is able to reach the goal of thought by thinking, he is doomed to superficiality. We can be preserved from superficiality only when by trying to think as deeply and clearly as possible, we begin to feel harassed by the hindrances to thought. This feeling of being frustrated in thought is a profound human experience, without which we cannot pass beyond superficiality into a really deep comprehension of life.","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":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p006","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/p006"},{"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/p006","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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Wenn man nur auf diesem Wege des Denkens bleiben will in dieser Richtung, kann man nicht an das Ziel gelangen, das einem das Denken selber, das Vorstellen, eigentlich vorzeichnet. -— So gelangt der Mensch an die eine Grenze, die seinem Wesen gesetzt ist für das Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod. Und man kann sagen: Eigentlich hat derjenige kein tieferes Erkenntnisleben, der nicht alle Schmerzen und Schicksalsrückschläge empfunden hat, die sich aus einem solchen Zurückgehaltenwerden gegenüber dem Denkziele auf dem Denk wege selbst ergeben. — Man ist gewissermaßen verurteilt, oberflächlich zu bleiben, wenn man durch seine innere Seelenkonstitution die Meinung haben kann, man könne durch das Denken zum Ziele dieses Denkens selber kommen. Man bewahrt sich bloß vor der Oberflächlichkeit, wenn man gerade, indem man versucht, mit aller Klarheit, mit aller Eindringlichkeit zu denken, durch diese Klarheit, durch diese Eindringlichkeit des Denkens dahin gebracht wird, daß man fühlt, wie einem der Denkhinderer im Nacken sitzt. Dieses Im-Nacken-sitzenFühlen des Hinderers, das ist ein tiefes menschliches Erlebnis, und ohne das geht es eigentlich nicht aus der Oberflächlichkeit in die Tiefe der Lebensauffassung hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p006"}],"english":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":292,"en_words":267,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p006"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6706,"original_word_count":6662,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 273/1919-01-19/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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