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And one of those who had listened to some of those standing nearby said: What Fichte said revealed that he had not practical, but bold images, energetic images, that his imagination was not graceful in the proper sense but forceful and powerful, and that he speaks in the realm of thought, in the realm of ideas, not like one who merely makes grand words, but like one who is able to rule in this invisible, in this supersensible world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p041","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160219p01.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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He wanted the listeners, when they had heard his phrases, to leave with a different inner life than when they came. He wanted to awaken something in them. But that is how he worked, vividly, seizing the self.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p042","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160219p01.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 einer derjenigen, der einigen der Nächststehenden zugehört hatte, der sagte: Dasjenige, was Fichte sprach, verriet, dass er zwar nicht praktische, aber kühne Bilder habe, energische Bilder habe, dass seine Phantasie nicht im eigentlichen Sinne anmutig, aber eindringlich und kraftvoll wirkte, und dass er im Reich der Gedanken, im Reich der Ideen spricht nicht wie einer, der bloß große Worte macht, sondern wie einer, der in dieser unsichtbaren, in dieser übersinnlichen Welt zu herrschen vermag.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p041"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Wenn Fichte zu seinen Zuhörern sprach, dann suchte er nicht bloß diesen Zuhörern den Inhalt dessen mitzuteilen, was er ihnen zu sagen hatte. Er sprach niemals, wenn er zweimal über einen Gegenstand vortrug, ein und dasselbe; er sprach niemals so - ich möchte sagen dass er nur einen gewissen Inhalt in der Seele hatte, den Inhalt an seine Zuhörer heranbringen wollte, sondern er hatte in seinem eigenen Innern ein Gesamtgefühl von dem, was er sagen wollte, eine Gesamtempfindung, und suchte vor allen Dingen ein innerliches Band herzustellen zwischen sich und jedem einzelnen Zuhörer. Er wollte, dass dasjenige, was in seiner Seele lebte als Kraft, nicht bloß als Wort wirksam, regsam werde in jedem einzelnen Zuhörer, [sondern] dass es in jedem einzelnen Zuhörer selber hervortöne. Er wollte, dass sich ein lebendiges Fluidum ausgieße über seine ganze Hörerschaft. Er wollte, dass die Zuhörer, wenn sie seine Redewendungen gehört haben, dass sie mit einem anderen inneren Leben weggehen, als sie hergekommen sind. Er wollte etwas lebendig machen in ihnen. 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Und dadurch, dass das Ich sich will, dadurch stellt es sich durch seine eigene Kraft in die Welt hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p043"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p044","passage_number":44,"text":"Dadurch aber auch musste sich für Fichte ein Weltbild ergeben, das in dem die Welt durchflutenden Wollen dasjenige sah, was das eigentlich Wirksame in der Welt ist. Und das Wunderbare tritt nun bei Fichte auf, dass er sagt: Diese äußere Sinneswelt, wie sie uns entgegentritt, sie ist nicht das Wahre, Wirkliche. Warum ist sie da? Sie ist da, damit der Mensch innerhalb dieser Sinnenwelt selber als ein sinnliches Wesen erscheinen könne; damit in diesem Menschen das die Welt durchflutende Wollen, das sich als die die Welt durchsetzende göttliche Pflicht ausdrückt, dass dieses Wollen ein Material bilde, um die Pflicht, um das Moralische zu erfüllen. So wird die ganze Welt durchzogen für Fichte von moralischer Substanz, von moralischer Wirklichkeit. Die ganze Welt ist ihm ein geistig Ganzes von Pflicht, und dasjenige, was als Einzelnes da ist, das ist, damit die Pflicht, damit der Wille, damit das Göttliche, das im Willen Lebendige sich ausleben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p044"},{"locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p045","passage_number":45,"text":"Das äußere Sinnliche nennt Fichte einen Stoff, nennt Fichte das versinnlichte Material der Pflicht. 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