38. The Ideals of Humanity and the Ideals of the Initiates
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And what is the value of all this? Even if it must be admitted that people quarrel over many, many things and are at war over them, there is still a certain area of truth where only the inner experience is decisive. People quarrel because of their passions, their desires, cravings and instincts – but wherever pure thought, dispassionate thought, prevails, there is no quarrel. But one must see the thought in the pure etheric height.
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