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Heinroth called Goethe's thinking “objective thinking.” And Goethe was particularly fond of this term, “objective thinking,” appealed to Goethe in particular, because he felt that his thinking in a certain way submerged itself in what it observed, that it connected intimately with what was observed, that it slipped out of subjectivity, so to speak, and slipped into the object, that the objects of perception were completely taken over by the concepts and the concepts in turn completely submerged themselves in the objects of perception. “Objective thinking,” said Heinroth, and Goethe really found in this a characteristic of what lived in his process of cognition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"Thinking as Creative Participation in Reality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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