{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1906-01-16/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One of those who grasped the concept of the ideal most beautifully is Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He once said to a group of young people: “We others also know that ideals cannot be applied directly in real life, if not better than that. But those others who don't have this feeling should wait for the time being. Ideals cannot be applied like food and drink every day; but for the idealist, ideals are the great effective forces of human life, those forces that he draws down from the invisible realms to introduce into the visible world. The small, unimportant phenomena of external life can indeed be experienced without significant ideals, but the great advances of humanity have only been achieved by those who are able to rise from the realm of reality into the realm of ideals. 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The Ideals of Humanity and the Ideals of the Initiates","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-16","location":null,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1906-01-16/p004","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":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19060116p01.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 hat einmal in einer Gruppe von jungen Leuten gesagt: Dass Ideale nicht unmittelbar anzuwenden sind im wirklichen Leben, das wissen wir andern auch, wenn nicht sogar besser. Jene andern aber, welche das Gefühl dafür nicht haben, sie mögen vorläufig warten. Ideale kann man nicht wie Essen und Trinken anwenden alle Tage; aber für den Idealisten sind die Ideale die großen wirksamen Kräfte des Menschenlebens, jene Kräfte, die er herunterholt aus den unsichtbaren Reichen, um sie einzuführen in die sichtbare Welt. Zwar können die kleinen, unwichtigen Erscheinungen des äußeren Lebens ohne bedeutsame Ideale erlebt werden, aber die großen Fortschritte der Menschheit sind nur von denjenigen zustande gekommen, welche fähig werden, sich vom Reiche der Wirklichkeit zu erheben in das Reich der Ideale. Nicht diejenigen, die sich praktisch dünken, sind die eigentlichen Fortschrittsmenschen, sondern diejenigen, auf welche der Alltagsmensch herunterschaut als Idealisten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1906-01-16/p004"}],"english":["GA 68b/1906-01-16/p004"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":156,"en_words":157,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2188,"original_word_count":2096,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19060116p01.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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