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But those who misunderstand, who fail to recognize the truth, will always be followed by others who can recognize it! For truth is something that is alive within. And though it may be misunderstood, it always knows how to find the way to its own recognition through an inner strength and intensity! One can also hate the truth, esteemed attendees. But he who hates the truth will experience that the truth has such a power over life that the hatred will eventually rebound on him. And in the face of hatred stands the truth; and he who knows how to live in it, yes, by recognizing the intrinsic value of truth, knows: you can revile the truth; but even more than with hatred, the reviling against the truth falls back on the reviler himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Und nachdem ich dies auseinandergesetzt habe, sehr verehrte Anwesende, wie sich das Bewusstsein desjenigen stärkt, der Geisteswissenschaft in ihrem Wesen wirklich versteht - versteht, wie sie heraufkommen muss in unserer Zeit in der geistigen Entwicklung der Menschheit, so wie einstmals in der kopernikanischen Zeit die neuere naturwissenschaftliche Weltanschauung heraufgekommen ist -, da denkt sich dann der Geistesforscher, wenn er dies Bewusstsein erlangt hat, das aus der Natur der Geisteswissenschaft sich ihm ergibt: Ja, man kann Gegner sein der Wahrheit es ist verständlich; man kann zum Beispiel die Wahrheit missverstehen, ganz missverstehen, wenn sie den alten Denkgewohnheiten widerspricht. Aber denjenigen, die missverstehen, die misskennen die Wahrheit, werden immer nachfolgen andere, die sie erkennen können! Denn die Wahrheit ist etwas innerlich Lebendiges. 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