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Just as one can feel the beauty of a picture without being a painter oneself, so with ordinary common sense one can perceive what the spiritual scientist says about the soul. That one *can* see it, I think I have established all the more firmly in recognizing how souls thirst for a profounder approach to psychology and to the great riddles of existence in relation to the soul. The aim of a modern view of life such as has been outlined here today does in fact represent the desire of countless people, though they are not ordinarily aware of it; it forms the pain, the sorrow, the privation, the wish of countless people—of all those who are serious about what we must regard as constructive forces in face of the many forces of decline present in our age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Aber ich glaube auch zu wissen, daß die Sehnsüchte nach einer solchen Seelenkunde, wenn auch ganz im Unbewußten, bei unzähligen Seelen heute vorhanden sind, so daß es immer und immer wiederum gesagt werden muß: Wie man kein Maler zu sein braucht, um die Schönheit eines Bildes zu empfinden, so braucht man selbst nicht Geistesforscher zu sein - obwohl man es bis zu einem gewissen Grade werden kann —, um prüfen zu können, ob das wahr ist, was ich hier sage. Wie man die Schönheit eines Bildes empfinden kann, ohne selbst Maler zu sein, so kann man mit dem gewöhnlichen, gesunden Menschenverstand heute einsehen, was der Geistesforscher der Seele sagt. Daß man es einsehen kann, das glaube ich um so mehr erhärtet zu haben, als ich zu erkennen glaube, wie die Seelen nach einer Vertiefung der Seelenkunde, der großen Daseinsrätsel des Lebens in bezug auf die Seele dürsten, wie tatsächlich das, was mit einer solchen modernen Weltanschauung, wie sie hier skizziert wurde, versucht wird, heute den Drang zahlloser Menschen bildet, die es auch gar nicht wissen in ihrem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein, wie es den Schmerz, das Leid, die Entbehrung, den Wunsch unzähliger Menschen bildet, all derer, die es ernst meinen mit dem, was wir finden müssen als aufsteigende Kräfte gegenüber so vielen in unserer Gegenwart vorhandenen Niedergangskräften.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p043"}],"english":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p043"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":256,"en_words":261,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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. 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