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That is why Goethe uttered the significant words about history: “The best thing we have from history is the enthusiasm it arouses.” — a feeling that it arouses when one can immerse oneself in historical becoming and not bring down something like the theorists of ordinary consciousness, but when one brings forth something that speaks not only to imagination and sensory perception, but also to what is dreamed in emotional impulses, what is even overslept in volitional impulses. Then one has what lives in history, not the corpse of history.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-11-30","location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/72/1917-11-30/p087","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2017","book_title":"Freedom, Immortality and Social Life","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA072/English/eLib2017/19171130p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/72/1917-11-30/p087"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/72/1917-11-30/p087","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Deshalb hat Goethe das bedeutende Wort über die Geschichte ausgesprochen: «Das Beste, was wir von der Geschichte haben, ist der Enthusiasmus, den sie erregt» -, ein Gefühl, das sie erregt, wenn man untertauchen kann in das geschichtliche Werden und nicht etwas herunterholt wie die Theoretiker des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins, sondern wenn man solches hervorholt, das nicht bloß zum Vorstellen und Sinneswahrnehmen spricht, sondern das zu dem spricht, was in den gefühlsmäßigen Impulsen erträumt, was in den willensmäßigen Impulsen sogar verschlafen wird. 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