{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68c/1909-12-06/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Hence the peculiarity of truth: we need nothing more than the work of our own ego if the truth is to have any value for us. Admittedly, in the case of present-day man, there are hardly any truths other than the simplest ones that take on such a form for him that the ego can really decide through itself. These are the simplest arithmetical truths. Once we have decided for ourselves that three times three is nine and not ten, then this decision, made in the innermost sanctuary of our ego, is enough to know that this is true. And even if millions of people were to say that three times three is ten, we would still decide for three times three is nine. This is valid for mathematical truths because they are clear and, so to speak, present themselves to us directly in their simplicity. Therefore, when we overcome this simplicity through the passions that assert themselves in the sentient soul, by the I working its way up into the rational soul, it must overcome the other affects in the same way as it overcomes anger. For only by casting out the instincts, desires, drives and passions that are in the soul can what a person experiences in the soul become truth. Where people disagree about the truth, where not everyone finds the same truths in their soul, it is precisely the urges, the desires, the passions that prevent them, so to speak, from truly seeing the circumstances of the truth transparently and brightly and clearly. The passions cannot have a say in simple mathematical truths. If, for example, passions were to arise regarding the transparency of mathematical truths, then many a housewife would certainly desire that if she takes three times three marks to market, it would make ten marks; for the passions speak in favor of this, but the simplicity and transparency of the mathematical truths do not allow the passions and desires to arise. In this case – in any matter at all, where we have managed to silence the passions and desires, we also clearly see the circumstances of the truth. In all the things in which we have not yet succeeded in silencing the passions and desires, we are not yet capable of deciding on the truth in earnest. But when we have succeeded in deciding on a truth, then the ego is in its inmost being the judge of the truth. Thus, the ego must feel itself in its power when it decides on the truth, when it acquires truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. 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Und wenn Millionen von Menschen sagen würden: Dreimal drei ist zehn, wir würden uns unbedingt für dreimal drei ist neun entscheiden. Das ist für die rechnerischen, für die mathematischen Wahrheiten deshalb gültig, weil sie übersichtlich sind, weil sie sozusagen in ihrer Einfachheit sich uns unmittelbar darbieten. Wenn wir daher durch diese Einfachheit dasjenige überwinden, was in der Empfindungsseele sich geltend macht als Leidenschaft, indem sich das Ich heraufarbeitet in die Verstandesseele, muss es geradeso, wie es den Zorn überwindet, überwinden die anderen Affekte. Denn nur dadurch wird das, was der Mensch in der Seele erlebt, zur Wahrheit, dass alles, was an Instinkten, Begierden, Trieben, Leidenschaften in der Seele ist, hinausgeworfen wird. Da, wo die Menschen nicht übereinstimmen in Bezug auf die Wahrheit, wo nicht ein jeder in seiner Seele dieselben Wahrheiten findet, da sind es eben die Triebe, die Begierden, die Leidenschaften, welche ihn sozusagen hindern, wirklich durchsichtig und hell und klar die Verhältnisse der Wahrheit zu schauen. Bei den einfachen rechnerischen Wahrheiten können die Leidenschaften nicht mitsprechen. Würden zum Beispiel die Leidenschaften aufkommen gegenüber der Durchsichtigkeit der rechnerischen Wahrheiten, dann würde gewiss manche Hausfrau begehren, dass, wenn sie dreimal drei Mark zum Markte bringt, das zehn Mark machen würde; denn die Leidenschaften sprechen dafür, aber die Einfachheit und Durchsichtigkeit der rechnerischen Wahrheiten lässt die Leidenschaften, die Begierden nicht aufkommen. In diesem Falle — in einer jeglichen Sache überhaupt, wo wir es dahin gebracht haben, die Leidenschaften und Begierden zum Schweigen zu bringen, da durchschauen wir auch klar die Verhältnisse der Wahrheit. Bei alldem, wo wir es noch nicht dahin gebracht haben, dass die Leidenschaften und Begierden schweigen, sind wir noch nicht imstande, über die Wahrheit im Ernst zu entscheiden. Haben wir es aber dahin gebracht, über eine Wahrheit zu entscheiden, dann ist das Ich in seinem Innersten der Richter über die Wahrheit. 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