VII. The Rhythmic System, Sleeping and Waking, Imitation
GA 307/1923-08-11/p042
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These things are really tragic. Materialism speaks only of matter, never of the spirit. But as a matter of fact materialism does not even understand matter, but speaks of it only in empty abstractions, while spiritualism, imagining that it is speaking of the spirit, is concerned only with matter.
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