{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-02-26/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Know Thyself! — the saying that already stood on the Apollonian sanctuary. But self-knowledge, which is most intimately connected with the path into the spiritual worlds, is, so to speak, the most, most difficult! Even the most external self-knowledge is something difficult for man. The philosopher Ernst Mach gives a curious example of this. In his “Analysis of Sensations” he reveals how he fared with regard to self-knowledge even in the most superficial area. He recounts how he was once crossing the street and saw his own image in a tilted mirror. He was shocked by the ugly, repulsive face that looked back at him, and lo and behold: it was his own. And when he was already a professor, something similar happened to him. He came tired from a trip and boarded a bus. On the other side, he saw a man get on, and he thought: What kind of dried-up schoolmaster gets on there! And again, the person who got on the bus opposite him turned out to be himself; he had seen himself in a mirror. And he says: So I knew the profession of Habirus better than my own. We see from this case that one can even be a famous professor and have all the qualities and powers of a famous professor and yet not have come very far in terms of the most external self-knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. What is Mortal in Man?","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-02-26","location":null,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-02-26/p039","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150226p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Er erschrak vor dem häßlichen, ihm widerwärtigen Gesicht, das ihm da entgegenschaute, und siehe da: es war sein eigenes. Und als er schon Professor war, passierte ihm etwas Ähnliches. Er kam ermüdet von einer Reise und bestieg einen Omnibus. Auf der anderen Seite sah er auch einen Mann einsteigen, und er dachte: Was für ein vertrockneter Schulmeister steigt denn da ein! Und wiederum entpuppte sich der Mensch, der ihm gegenüber einstieg, als er selber; er hatte sich in einem Spiegel gesehen. Und er sagt: So kannte ich den Berufshabirus besser als meinen eigenen. 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