{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1909-02-13/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We will look at these three stages of practical thought training in a moment. But first we must consider the basic condition, the attitude needed if we want to think about acquiring the right attitude towards thinking. I have already used the image. No one should think they can draw water from a glass that contains none. Those who think about thinking today think according to this pattern. They think that they can draw thoughts from a world in which there are none. This alone gives our thoughts and concepts and ideas that arise in our soul the possibility of meaning something, of not being something insubstantial, but rather that the world is only really built according to the thoughts that we find in it. Only a world that has arisen from the thoughts that we find is entitled to be thought through thoughts. The person looking at a clock will readily see that the thoughts inherent in it were had by the clockmaker. Only he who reflects on the world would wish to believe that the world is ordered according to thoughts that are only conceived afterwards by man. He would only accept thoughts that the soul forms, and would not believe that things are only formed according to the thoughts that man forms last.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. The Practical Training of Thinking","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-13","location":null,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p021","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/SOL2024/19090213p01.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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Wir müssen aber vorher die Grundbedingung, die man als Gesinnung braucht, wenn man daran denken will, die richtige Stellung zum Denken zu gewinnen, uns vor Augen führen. Ich habe das Bild schon gebraucht. Niemand sollte glauben, Wasser schöpfen zu können aus einem Glase, in dem keines ist. Diejenigen, die heute über das Denken denken, denken nach diesem Muster. Sie denken nämlich, dass sie Gedanken aus einer Welt gewinnen können, in der keine darinnen sind. Das allein gibt die Möglichkeit, dass unsere, in unserer Seele aufleuchtenden Gedanken und Begriffe und Vorstellungen etwas bedeuten, dass sie nicht etrwas Wesenloses sind, sondern dass die Welt nach den Gedanken, die wir in ihr finden, wirklich erst aufgebaut ist. Nur eine Welt, die aus den Gedanken entsprungen ist, die wir finden, ist berechtigt durch Gedanken gedacht zu werden. Derjenige, der eine Uhr ansieht, wird leicht einsehen, dass die Gedanken, die darinnen liegen, der Uhrmacher gehabt hat. 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