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Thought experience was to me the thing itself with a reality into which – as something actually experienced through and through – doubt could find no entrance. The world of the senses did not seem to me so completely a matter of experience. It is there; but one does not lay hold upon it as upon thought. In it or behind it there might be an unknown reality concealed. Yet man himself is set in the midst of this world. Therefore, the question arises: Is *this* world, then, a reality complete in itself? When man from within weaves into this world of the senses the thoughts which bring light into this world, does he then bring into this world something foreign to it? This does not accord at all with the experience that man has when the world of the senses stands before him and he breaks into it by means of his thought. Thought then appears to be that by means of which the world of the senses expresses its own nature. 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This drove me to a thorough-going study of Hegel. The manner in which this philosopher set forth the reality of thought was distressing to me. That he made his way through only to a thought world, even though a living thought-world, and not to the perception of a world of concrete spirit – this repelled me. The assurance with which one philosophizes when one advances from thought to thought drew me on. I saw that many persons felt there was a difference between experience and thought. To me thought itself was experience, but of such a nature that one lived in it, not such that it entered from without into men. 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Die weitere Verfolgung dieses Nachsinnens war dazumal ein wichtiger Teil meines inneren Lebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/28/l03/p023"},{"locus":"GA 28/l03/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Aber ich wollte vorsichtig sein. Voreilig einen Gedankengang bis zum Ausbilden einer eigenen philosophischen Anschauung zu führen, schien mir gefährlich. Das trieb mich zu einem eingehenden Studium Hegels. Die Art, wie dieser Philosoph die Wirklichkeit des Gedankens darstellt, war mir nahegehend. Daß er nur zu einer Gedankenwelt, wenn auch zu einer lebendigen, vordringt, nicht zu einer Anschauung einer konkreten Geisteswelt, stieß mich zurück. Die Sicherheit, mit der man philosophiert, wenn man von Gedanke zu Gedanken fortschreitet, zog mich an. Ich sah, daß Viele einen Gegensatz empfanden zwischen der Erfahrung und dem Denken. Mir war das Denken selbst Erfahrung, aber eine solche, in der man lebt, nicht eine solche, die von außen an den Menschen herantritt. Und so wurde mir Hegel für eine längere Zeit sehr wertvoll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/28/l03/p024"},{"locus":"GA 28/l03/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Bei meinen Pflichtstudien, die unter diesen philosophischen Interessen naturgemäß hätten zu kurz kommen müssen, kam mir zugute, daß ich schon vorher mich viel mit Differential- und Integralrechnung, auch mit analytischer Geometrie befaßt hatte. So konnte ich von mancher mathematischen Vorlesung wegbleiben, ohne den Zusammenhang zu verlieren. Die Mathematik behielt für mich ihre Bedeutung auch als Grundlage meines ganzen Erkenntnisstrebens. In ihr ist doch ein System von Anschauungen und Begriffen gegeben, die von aller äußeren Sinneserfahrung unabhängig gewonnen sind. 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