2. The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge

GA 4/l02/p014 · RSP1964 HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

The third form of monism is the one which finds even in the simplest entity (the atom) both matter and spirit already united. But nothing is gained by this either, except that the question, which really originates in our consciousness, is shifted to another place. How comes it that the simple entity manifests itself in a two-fold manner, if it is an indivisible unity?

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Cite: GA 4/l02/p014 · edition RSP1964 (Steiner 1918 revised edition)