{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1909-02-13/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Goethe was born with such talents. He had developed them in previous incarnations. Therefore, he became something — for those who know the facts, this is clear —, therefore he became something that many who call themselves practical today are not at all. Goethe, of course, became a lawyer and also practised law. Those who know of his work in this field are aware that although his legal knowledge was not very extensive, his legal work was characterized by the opposite of what can be observed today: a lawsuit is in progress and it is handed over to a lawyer. You go there and want to ask him something. But there is no real reflection. You are not immersed in it. Bundles of files are opened, notes are looked at. You can find the most impractical thing there. For many, the people you have to turn to as practitioners are those who make things as impractical as possible. Goethe was practical. He didn't know much about law, but what he touched, he touched in the most practical way. We must not imagine that a person like Goethe is necessarily impractical. If the files that Goethe created as a minister in Weimar are ever released, we will see that he was a practical man. Goethe's practice was quite different from that of non-poets, although this is not meant as a dig at practitioners who are so arrogant.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. The Practical Training of Thinking","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-13","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p035","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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Daher wurde er etwas — für den, der die Tatsachen kennt, ist das klar —, daher wurde er etwas, was viele, die sich heute praktisch nennen, durchaus nicht sind. Goethe war ja Jurist geworden, hat auch praktische juristische Tätigkeit ausgeübt. Diejenigen, die diese Tätigkeit von ihm kennen, wissen, dass sein juristisches Wissen zwar kein sehr umfassendes war, was er aber juristisch geführt hat, was das auszeichnet, ist das Gegenteil von dem, was man heute beobachten kann: Es läuft ein Prozess, der ist einem Rechtsanwalt übergeben. Man kommt hin, will etwas wissen von ihm. Ja, es ist kein richtiges Besinnen da. Man steckt nicht darinnen. Es werden Aktenbündel aufgeschlagen, es werden Zettel angesehen. Das Unpraktischste kann man da finden. Für viele sind die, an die man sich wenden muss als an die Praktiker, diejenigen, die die Sache so unpraktisch wie nur möglich machen. Goethe war praktisch. Viel gewusst hat er nicht in der Juristerei, aber was er angefasst hat, hat er angefasst in der praktischsten Weise. Man darf sich unter solch einem Menschen, wie Goethe es war, nicht einen Menschen vorstellen, der unpraktisch sein muss. Wenn einmal die Akten herausgegeben werden, die Goethe als Minister angelegt hat in Weimar, da wird man sehen, dass er ein Praktiker war. 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