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Such concepts, such impulses, cannot come out of lecture-halls still laboring in the shadow of this *ignorabimus*. That is the great tragedy of our time. Here lie questions that must be answered.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Consciousness, Matter, and the Crisis of Modern Thought","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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August 1872 Du Bois-Reymond in Leipzig ausgesprochen hat sein Ignorabimus, dieses Ignorabimus hingeworfen worden ist auch für alles soziale Denken, daß eigentlich dieses Ignorabimus geheißen hat: Wir wissen uns nicht zu helfen gegenüber dem wirklichen Leben, wir haben Schattenbegriffe, keine Wirklichkeitsbegriffe. — Und jetzt, fast fünfzig Jahre danach, verlangt die Welt von uns solche Begriffe. Wir müssen sie haben. Aus den Hörsälen, die im Grunde genommen noch immer unter der Wirkung dieses Ignorabimus arbeiten, können uns diese Begriffe, diese Impulse nicht kommen. Das ist die Kardinaltragik der Gegenwart. 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