III. Thinking in the Service of Apprehending the World

GA 4/l03/p011 · AP1986 HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

That is the characteristic nature of thinking, that the thinker forgets his thinking while exercising it. It is not thinking that occupies him, but rather the object of thinking that he is observing.

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Cite: GA 4/l03/p011 · edition AP1986 (Steiner 1918 revised edition)