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A balanced view of the world and of life thus strives, not to conjure up visions or hallucinations from the soul, but to experience the life of thoughts and concepts with an intensity that we otherwise experience only through the outward senses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Je nach den Anlagen dauert es bei dem einen jahrelang, bei dem andern weniger lang; aber jeder kann merken, wenn er an dem entscheidenden Punkt angelangt ist, wie sein Denken dann aus dem, was ich gestern das abstrakte, tote Denken nannte, ein innerlich lebendiges Denken wird, ein innerlich lebendiges Denken, das den Weltrhythmus mitzuerleben in der Lage ist. Da strebt eine besonnene Welt- und Lebensauffassung nicht danach, Visionen oder Halluzinationen aus der Seele herauszuzaubern, sondern danach, das, was Vorstellungsleben, was Gedankenleben ist, in einer solchen Intensität zu erleben, wie man sonst nur erlebt, was den äußeren Sinnen gegeben wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p021"}],"english":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p021"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":176,"en_words":161,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6877,"original_word_count":7314,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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