{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let me give you an example of the difference between just knowing, and truly comprehending. We have recently mentioned here that someone can be next to us, we can see what he looks like, but we need not necessarily really know him for what he is. I have told the story of the singer who, at an evening party sat between Mendelsohn and someone else she did not know. She got on very well with Mendelsohn, but towards the other guest, though he was very courteous, she felt an aversion. Afterwards she asked, “Who was that bore on my left?” The answer was, “It was the famous philosopher Hegel”. If the lady had been told previously that the great philosopher Hegel would be present at a party, that alone would probably have been enough for her to have accepted the invitation. But because he sat beside her unknown, he was a bore. This is the difference between seeing and understanding, between just knowing and comprehending.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"John's Gospel as Initiation into Higher Worlds","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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Vortragsreihen","evidence_translation":"Summaries and notes of lectures and lecture cycles","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Nun ein Beispiel zu dem Unterschied zwischen bloßem Kennen und dem Erkennen. Wir haben neulich einmal hier angeführt, daß ein Mensch neben uns sein kann, daß wir ihn sehen können, wie er ist, aber daß wir ihn deshalb noch nicht zu erkennen brauchen. Ich habe in diesem Zusammenhang die Anekdote von jener Sängerin erwähnt, die auf einer Abendunterhaltung zwischen Mendelssohn und einem ihr Unbekannten saß. Sie unterhielt sich sehr gut mit Mendelssohn, aber der andere, der sehr artig war, der war ihr zuwider. Sie fragte daher hinterher: Wer war denn der dumme Kerl zu meiner Linken? - Das war doch der berühmte Philosoph Hegel! war die Antwort. Wenn der Dame vorher gesagt worden wäre, bei einer Abendunterhaltung werde der große Philosoph Hegel zu sehen sein, würde sie vermutlich allein aus diesem Grunde der Einladung gefolgt sein. Da er aber jetzt unbekannt neben ihr saß, war er der dumme Kerl. Das ist der Unterschied zwischen Sehen und Verstehen, zwischen Kennen und Erkennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-02-19/p010"}],"english":["GA 94/1906-02-19/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":161,"en_words":165,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4768,"original_word_count":4981,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK1980","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/UNK1980/19060219p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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