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Theory does not yet account for everything in life, nor does mere intellectual content. But there is something in the way a personality engages with social life that is more than the content of its sentences, that is, the theory; it is how the personality in question speaks, the way it comes out of life and how it comes out, what the personality in question has to say.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The History of Mankind in the Light of Supersensible Reality Research","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-29","location":null,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-29/p025","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":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180529p01.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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Wenn heute jemand eine Auseinandersetzung von irgendeiner Seite vernimmt, so gibt er nur auf den Inhalt acht, er folgt nur dem reinen Wortlaute nach; das tritt gerade in der Gegenwart grell zutage und ist mit Bezug auf das Gesagte sehr wichtig, denn jeder muss einsehen, dass zwei Menschen dem Wortlaute nach dasselbe sagen können, was aber dem Sinne nach ganz anders ist. Die Theorie macht für das Leben noch nicht alles aus, und der bloß verstandesmäßige Inhalt macht es auch nicht aus. Es liegt aber in der Art, wie eine Persönlichkeit sich hineinstellt in das gesellschaftliche Leben, etwas, was mehr ist als der Inhalt ihrer Sätze, die Theorie; das ist, wie die betreffende Persönlichkeit spricht, die Art und Weise, wie sie aus dem Leben herauskommt, und wie es herauskommt, was die betreffende Persönlichkeit zu sagen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-05-29/p025"}],"english":["GA 71b/1918-05-29/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":207,"en_words":215,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8851,"original_word_count":8620,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180529p01.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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