III. Thinking as the Instrument of Knowledge

GA 4/l03/p011 · RSPC1949 HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

The peculiar nature of thinking consists just in this, that the thinker forgets his thinking while actually engaged in it. It is not thinking which occupies his attention, but rather the object of the thinking which he observes.

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Cite: GA 4/l03/p011 · edition RSPC1949 (Steiner 1918 revised edition)