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What Lessing really meant to express in his famous saying about truth is truly valid: If God were to extend to me his right and his left hand and in his right hand held the pure, full truth; but in his left hand held the eternal striving for truth, then I would say: Father, give me what you have in your left hand, the eternal striving for truth; for the pure, full truth is, after all, only for you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. 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Wirklich gilt im Ernst das, was Lessing ausdrücken wollte in seinem berühmten Ausspruch über die Wahrheit: Wenn Gott mir reichen würde seine Rechte und seine Linke und in seiner Rechten hielte die reine, volle Wahrheit; in seiner Linken aber das ewige Streben nach Wahrheit, dann würde ich sagen: Vater, gib mir das, was du in deiner Linken hast, das ewige Streben nach Wahrheit; denn die reine, volle Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p004"}],"english":["GA 68c/1909-12-06/p004"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":166,"en_words":172,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10593,"original_word_count":10222,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Goethe and the Present","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068c/English/SOL2024/19091206p01.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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