{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69a/1913-02-16/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Nevertheless, in natural sciences it is exactly the same way; one has to experience these things. If a human being has never seen a whale fish, zoology cannot prove that there is a whale fish. With it, some objections disprove themselves. Schopenhauer characterised a part of his system with the fact that he said, the world is my idea.—With it, he stated that one cannot separate percepts from mental pictures. However, there is an easy, even if trivial rebuttal. If we imagine that we touch our skin with an iron piece of 900 degrees centigrade, we can imagine the pain probably in thoughts, but an only imagined hot iron does not cause ache as a real one does. There is a proof that is produced by life. The same applies to the spiritual life; it must be experienced to the end.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death I","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-02-16","location":null,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69a/1913-02-16/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2017","book_title":"Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069a/English/eLib2017/19130216v01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Wenn noch nie ein Mensch einen Walfisch gesehen hat, so kann man aus der Zoologie nicht beweisen, daß es einen Walfisch gibt. Damit widerlegen sich manche Einwände. Schopenhauer hat einen Teil seines Systems damit charakterisiert, daß er sagte: Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung. - Damit wird behauptet,   daß Wahrnehmungen  von  Vorstellungen nicht zu trennen seien. Es gibt aber einen einfachen, wenn auch trivialen Gegenbeweis. Wenn wir uns vorstellen, wir bringen ein Eisenstück von 900 Grad Celsius an das Gesicht, so können wir uns den verursachten Schmerz wohl in Gedanken vorstellen, aber brennen tut ein nur vorgestelltes heißes Eisen nicht, wohl aber ein wirkliches. Es gibt also einen Beweis, der durch das Leben erbracht wird. Und so ist es mit dem geistigen Leben; es muß nur bis zu Ende erlebt werden. Jemand hat eingewendet, bei großem Durst könne man sich recht wohl den Geschmack und die erfrischende Wirkung einer Limonade vorstellen. Ja - aber den Durst kann man mit dieser Vorstellung nicht löschen. Man darf nicht bloß mit logischen Spielereien kommen. Der Geistesforscher muß so weit gekommen sein, daß er unterscheiden kann zwischen Wirklichkeit und Phantastik, geradeso wie man in der physischen Welt unterscheiden muß zwischen Wirklichkeit und Vorstellung. So tritt der Mensch in diejenige Welt ein, in der er jede Nacht ist, wenn er herausgetreten ist aus dem physischen Leibe, wo er auch im Geistig-Seelischen ist, nur daß er dann keine innere Regsamkeit besitzt. 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