II. The Desire for Knowledge

GA 4/l02/p005 · RSPC1949 HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

We erect this barrier between ourselves and the world as soon as consciousness is first kindled in us. But we never cease to feel that, in spite of all, we belong to the world, that there is a connecting link between it and us, and that we are beings within, and not without, the universe.

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Cite: GA 4/l02/p005 · edition RSPC1949 (Steiner 1918 revised edition)