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Goethe did not stop at thinking ahead; he added the thinking of his mature knowledge, his reflection. No, not only the premeditation, not only that which rejects all wisdom, not only the pre-thinking that rejects all reflection, but the confluence of both alone can establish the mission of truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. The Mission of Truth","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-06","location":null,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p038","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":"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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Und wenn wir heute mit einer gewissen Selbstbefriedigung hingewiesen finden auf diesen jugendlichen «Prometheus», als wenn er uns den ganzen Goethe gäbe, dann müssen wir sagen: Das ist nur eine einseitige Ausprägung Goethes selber. Goethe ist nicht stehen geblieben bei dem Vordenken; er fügte hinzu das seiner reifen Erkenntnis, das Nachdenken. Nein, nicht bloß das Vorgedachte, nicht bloß das, was ablehnt alle Weisheit, nicht nur das Vordenkende, das alles Nachdenkende abweist, sondern das Zusammenfließen beider allein kann die Mission der Wahrheit begründen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p038"}],"english":["GA 68c/1909-12-06/p038"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":181,"ratio":1.08,"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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