{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1921-01-28/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Nowadays, especially in science, but also in life in general, we take the view that we develop those qualities in people that are, let us say, inherited, that can be acquired through ordinary education, and then we are usually ready for today's life and for scientific life. This is the point of departure, especially in scientific life. One regards oneself as more or less complete in a certain way, in terms of one's ordinary inherited qualities and one's education, and one looks at the world, so to speak, from this completed point of view. One combines what the mind and the senses provide and, without going deeper, one might say that one only considers what is missing in the area one wants to explore. One expands, one also expands by perhaps arming the eye with a telescope or microscope or [spectroscope] or X-ray machine. But in this way one attains nothing more than, I would like to say, even if indirectly, by means of the spectroscope or the X-ray apparatus or the telescope, one sees the same thing that one otherwise has before the senses and the other senses. But what one needs to have for spiritual science is intellectual modesty. That means that at some point in life one must simply say to oneself: Man can develop abilities from the age of five to the age of twenty. In a sense, he draws out of his inner being what is latent in him. And only because he has drawn something out of his inner being does the world now look different to him. If one merely describes the external senses: It is no longer there, but it is now more present for him because he has brought abilities and qualities out of the depths of his soul. So one says to oneself: There could be other abilities in this soul, abilities that do not come through the ordinary inherited qualities in their natural development and through ordinary education, but that perhaps only come through taking the soul life intimately inwardly — albeit with the appropriate modesty, because it is only a sensualization —, deeply inwardly, and that one brings it beyond the point of view that can otherwise be obtained in life and in ordinary science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-28","location":null,"word_count":377,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p011","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 Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.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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Man kombiniert dasjenige, was der Verstand, was die sinnlichen Tatsachen geben, und schreitet nicht innerlich weiter, sondern man macht, ich möchte sagen nur das Fehlende desjenigen, was man gerade erforschen will. Man breitet sich aus, man breitet sich auch dadurch aus, dass man vielleicht das Auge durch Teleskop oder Mikroskop oder durch das [Spektroskop] oder durch den Röntgenapparat bewaffnet, irgendwie. Aber auf diese Weise erlangt man doch nichts anderes, als dass man, ich möchte sagen, wenn auch in mittelbarer Weise durch das Spektroskop oder den Röntgenapparat oder durch das Teleskop dasselbe anschaut, was man auch sonst vor den sinnlichen Augen und den anderen Sinnen hat. Was man aber zur Geisteswissenschaft haben muss, ist intellektuelle Bescheidenheit. Das heißt, man muss sich einfach in einem Momente seines Lebens Folgendes sagen: Der Mensch kann Fähigkeiten ausbilden von seinem fünften bis zu seinem zwanzigsten Lebensjahre. Da holt er gewissermaßen dasjenige, was in ihm veranlagt ist, aus seinem Innern heraus. Und nur dadurch, dass er etwas aus seinem Innern herausgeholt hat, sieht für ihn die Welt jetzt anders aus. Wenn man bloß das äußere Sinnliche beschreibt: Das ist nicht mehr da, aber es ist jetzt für ihn mehr da, weil er Fähigkeiten und Eigenschaften aus den Grundtiefen seiner Seele herausgeholt hat. So sagt man sich: Es könnten in dieser Seele noch andere Fähigkeiten liegen, Fähigkeiten, die eben nicht durch die gewöhnlichen vererbten Eigenschaften in ihrer naturgemäßen Entwicklung und durch die gewöhnliche Erziehung herauskommen, sondern die vielleicht nur dadurch herauskommen, dass man das seelische Leben intim innerlich — wenn auch mit der entsprechenden Bescheidenheit, weil es ja nur eine Versinnlichung ist —, tief innerlich selber nun in die Hand nimmt und weiterleitet, dass man es über den Standpunkt hinausbringt, der einem sonst im Leben und in der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft beschert sein kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":398,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p011"}],"english":["GA 80b/1921-01-28/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":398,"en_words":377,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":17469,"original_word_count":17257,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.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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