V. The Act of Knowing (Cognizing) the World

GA 4/l05/p015 · RSPC1949 HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.

It is not due to the objects that they appear to us at first without their corresponding concepts, but to our mental organization. Our whole being functions in such a way that from every real thing the relevant elements come to us from two sources, viz., from perception and from thinking.

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Cite: GA 4/l05/p015 · edition RSPC1949 (Steiner 1918 revised edition)