{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-03-04/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yet, without the temperaments the world would be an exceedingly dull place, not only ethically, but also in a higher sense. The temperaments alone make all multiplicity, beauty, and fullness of life possible. Thus in education it would be senseless to want to homogenize or eliminate them, but an effort should be made to direct each into the proper track, for in every temperament there lie two dangers of aberration, one great, one small. One danger for the young choleric is that he will never learn to control his temper as he develops into maturity. That is the small danger. The greater is that he will become foolishly single-minded. For the sanguine the lesser danger is flightiness; the greater is mania, induced by a constant stream of sensations. The small danger for the phlegmatic is apathy; the greater is stupidity, dullness. For the melancholic, insensitivity to anything other than his own personal pain is the small danger; the greater is insanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Four Temperaments","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-03-04","location":null,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-03-04/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Brian Kelly","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090304p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-03-04/p027","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Jeder Mensch hat nur den Grundton eines Temperamentes, daneben hat er von den anderen. Napoleon hatte zum Beispiel viel Phlegmatisches in sich, obwohl er ein Choleriker war. Wenn wir das Leben praktisch beherrschen, so kommt es darauf an, daß wir auf unsere Seele dasjenige wirken lassen können, was sich typisch ausdrückt. Wie wichtig es ist, das sieht man am allerbesten, wenn man bedenkt, daß die Temperamente ausarten können, daß das, was uns in der Einseitigkeit entgegentreten kann, auch ausarten kann. Was wäre die Welt ohne die Temperamente, wenn die Menschen nur ein Temperament hätten! Das Langweiligste, was Sie sich denken könnten! Langweilig wäre die Welt ohne die Temperamente, nicht nur im sittlichen, sondern auch im höheren Sinne. Alle Mannigfaltigkeit, Schönheit und aller Reichtum des Lebens sind nur möglich durch die Temperamente. Bei der Erziehung handelt es sich nicht darum, die Temperamente auszugleichen, zu nivellieren, sondern es handelt sich darum, sie in die richtigen Geleise zu bringen. Aber in jedem Temperamente liegt eine kleine und eine große Gefahr der Ausartung. Beim cholerischen Menschen liegt in der Jugend die Gefahr vor, daß ein solcher Mensch durch Zornwütigkeit, ohne daß er sich beherrschen kann, sein Ich eingeprägt erhält. Das ist die kleine Gefahr. Die große Gefahr ist die Narrheit, die aus ihrem Ich heraus irgendein einzelnes Ziel verfolgen will. Beim sanguinischen Temperamente ist die kleine Gefahr die, daß der Mensch in Flatterhaftigkeit verfällt. Die große Gefahr ist, daß das Auf- und Abwogen der Empfindungen in Irrsinn einmündet. Die kleine Gefahr des Phlegmatikers ist die Interesselosigkeit gegenüber der äußeren Welt; die große Gefahr ist die Idiotie, der Stumpfsinn. Die kleine Gefahr beim melancholischen Temperament ist der Trübsinn, die Möglichkeit, daß der Mensch nicht herauskommt über das, was im eignen Innern aufsteigt. 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