{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 277d/1923-07-29/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"On the other hand, anyone with aesthetic sensibility cannot help but look at someone with a certain pleasure or displeasure, depending on whether they grasp something gracefully or beautifully, reservedly or greedily with their fingers. It is so that we recognize the whole person, so to speak, by the way they hold a fork, how they pick up a pear at the table, and the like. There is a tremendous difference between a person snatching a pear with their fingers and a person cupping the pear in their hands. There is tremendous expressiveness in what comes from the human hand. In this regard, one only needs to be receptive to such things. If I may state a paradox, I would like to say: I have shown in various articles how much I appreciate and love Franz Brentano, who recently passed away in Zurich a few years ago. I am often compelled to emphasize the special way in which this man held the sheet of paper on which he had his lecture notes during his lectures: The only thing that shows the unique position of this philosopher in the intellectual world is the way he held a sheet of paper with his fingers. Of course, this applies to every human being in a certain sense. One can pretend in the language of the mouth; in the language of the fingers, hands, and arms, it is impossible to pretend, because this remains unconscious in humans. Anyone who studies this comes to the conclusion that the human being can actually speak much more clearly and luminously through the arms and hands than through the mouth. It is so!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eurythmy Performance","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-07-29","location":null,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277d/1923-07-29/p018","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1923–1925","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA277d/English/SOL2025/19230729e01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wenn ich ein Paradoxon sagen darf, so möchte ich sagen: Ich habe ja in den verschiedenen Artikeln gezeigt, wie sehr ich den jüngst, vor ein paar Jahren in Zürich verstorbenen Franz Brentano schätze und liebe. Es drängt mich oftmals die besondere Art und Weise zu betonen, wie dieser Mann das Blatt gehalten hat bei seinen Vorlesungen, auf dem er die Notizen für seine Vorlesungen hatte: Merkwürdig einzig die Stellung dieses Philosophen in der geistigen Welt zeigend ist [die] Art und Weise, wie er mit seinen Fingern ein Blatt Papier hielt. Das gilt natürlich in einem gewissen Sinne für jeden Menschen. In der Sprache des Mundes kann man sich verstellen; in der Sprache der Finger, Hände, Arme, ist es unmöglich, sich zu verstellen, weil dies beim Menschen unbewusst bleibt. Wer dies studiert, kommt darauf, dass eigentlich die menschliche Wesenheit viel klarer, viel lichtvoller durch Arme und Hände sprechen kann als durch den Mund. 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