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• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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  • yet possess the capacity of abstract thinking, nor the power enabling
• Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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  • Ideas as such are abstractions, as I mentioned here yesterday
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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  • about such a problem as reincarnation, because one cannot speak about it in the abstract sense
  • One should not think in an abstract way that
  • the abstractness of Puritanism — to root out spiritual life, to chip away the political
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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  • activities. It is directed towards entirely abstract spiritual regions, and basically does not
  • so much in the abstract concepts of Marxism, but essentially in the fact that its bearers are
  • much as in the ancient Mystery truths — which have become abstract and which, in the
  • Puritanism certainly represented an abstract sphere of belief, this freer element was
  • science, there remained, as an external appendage, leading an abstract existence of its own, what
  • see how here, in a certain sense, body and soul are overwhelmed by an abstract scientific spirit
  • sum of abstractions of what lives in the human being himself; and you find what is supposed to be
  • imaginations are taken hold of in abstract concepts, as in Soloviev.
  • Puritanism lived like an abstract appendage
  • more of God than the fairy tale of a generalized, completely abstract, cosmic first cause.
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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  • this work of Kant's which was abstract, but in a completely different sense. And just as he seems
  • abstractly as the middle condition, Goethe portrays in the building of the temple in which rule
  • twenty forces in a much less abstract way.
  • taken by Schiller using logic or intellectual analysis without becoming philistine and abstract.
  • into a dark blue, as it were, of mere abstraction, of intellectuality, had he proceeded further
  • have found: something much more real in his three soul-conditions than the three abstractions in his
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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  • being quite abstractly. He works with them in an entirely abstract way. He has his mathematics,
  • abstract. But he will very soon make a certain discovery. Strange though it may still seem to the
  • dialectical-legal way one only needs an abstract pedagogy which speaks of the human child in a
  • knowledge of the spirit. Talk of the spirit in general terms — in empty, abstract words in
  • world by abstracting from the physical but only by direct spiritual investigation. These
• Title: Talk To Young People:
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  • abstract kind of dreaminess. Then the big problems will turn up. No
  • others, today, it will sound like abstractions
• Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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  • intuitions are no mere abstract things like our own thoughts, concepts
  • brutally abstract are the questions propounded by
  • human kingdoms this abstract manner as identical, one could with equal
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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  • abstractions.
  • analysed abstract wisdom.[Gap
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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  • for himself, and for us remain only the abstract ideas, the dead
  • and abstract.
  • accustomed to look — the abstract grasp of what
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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  • doing, it comes into a dying element, into a network of abstract,
  • thought, but only of the dead reproduction, of the stiff, abstract
  • abstractions — has, indeed, partly done so,
  • abstractions which are pleasing to many people —
  • found an abstract philosophy, but to collect a group of men who talk
  • expressing itself so abstractly, but it clothes itself as it were in
  • — came forward who had founded an abstract
• Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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  • philosophies were in reality but abstractions inspired by the wisdom of the
  • Universalia post rem: these essential forms abstracted from the things and
  • abstraction in the eyes of those for whom only the world of sensible
  • purely abstract concepts. This was never their intention. [
  • A mere reference to the abstract logical element in their philosophy falls
  • arid since they cannot but regard the concept as something merely abstract,
  • abstract thought; the experience of spiritual realities is achieved.
  • thought; not such thought as accompanies sense-perception with abstract
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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  • from life and cannot issue from abstract scientific thinking.
  • in teaching, one should never proceed from the abstract, but always from
  • abstractions, really nothing but abstract chaff, and the man fails to
  • you saw last year that our pedagogy is not to be built upon abstract
  • we can grasp in the form of abstract principles, that we can bring to mind
  • more will come from this feeling than from any abstract principles. If we
  • the elaboration of abstract principles. In fact this diversity of life is
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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  • purposes. All the abstract chatter you find today in books on psychology or
  • that would shift over from the more abstract lingual form to the artistic.
• Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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  • invented so many abstract educational systems. The essential thing today,
  • that cannot be reduced to abstract principles but which is alive and
  • of extremely abstract dimensions. People long for a great deal, but nothing
• Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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  • currents much too abstractly. In fact, however, they are realized in
• Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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  • just in the abstract. If you want to understand how this happens in
• Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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  • stressed yesterday and the day-before-yesterday, how abstract this life
  • abstract and hence materialistic. For, everything abstract leads human
  • the life in theosophical abstractions! This life in theosophical
  • abstractions limits itself to saying, the human being consists of
  • these abstractions as something grandiose, while remaining stuck in
• Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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  • heights, if — not theoretically and not abstractly but with our
• Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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  • set forth in a more philosophical-abstract form in his
  • is not my habit to interpret such things in an abstract
  • notion of interpreting the whole matter abstractly still does
  • abstractly. That is not at all what matters. On the other
  • subconscious life. Presented only abstractly, we find
  • abstract-philosophical concepts. Thus, despite having thought a
  • not be enmeshed in abstract theoretical concepts if it is
• Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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  • stood before his soul, though not as a general abstract idea,
  • without putting it into an abstract formula — having been
  • dealing with total abstraction. In so far as it is still
  • perhaps a matter of residual abstraction, to that extent it can
  • abstraction for him. It urged him to grasp the living spiritual
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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  • Central Europe, history should not be studied based on abstract
  • illustrating historical phenomena with abstract concepts, but of
  • fact will always be another fact, not an abstract concept. Therefore
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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  • can well imagine that someone who is embedded so strongly in abstract
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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  • place those of a purely mathematical-causal abstraction as a
  • world we experience within is more or less an abstraction of an
  • which has a particular abstract character, a pictorial
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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  • created an organ for abstract thinking.
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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  • For him the Logos did not only have an abstract, logical
  • “logic” we only find abstract concepts! So it is
  • there? This is abstract logic, the demand of the creative, the
  • abstraction, and take Hegel's logic as the sprouts which can
  • tragedy that Hegel could only care for abstract ideas, which he
  • collects these concepts and forms a separate abstract unit. I
  • be through abstract concepts but through living scientific
  • base which is so abstract that it can't be “Spirit on the
  • really can be grasped, not as abstraction but as the living
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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  • abstraction which one can have in order to satisfy some or
  • strive for an abstract head knowledge — if I might use this
  • try to define this in some way, to formulate an abstract
  • accessible to abstraction.
  • of what had been understood as abstract concepts earlier, but
  • only abstraction. The abstract has no life-forces, it is in a
  • remain abstract, they can't obtain any kind of favourable
  • principles in an abstract manner; it only wants to be an
  • Certainly this could be expressed as an abstract principle but
  • they are something abstract, strangers in relation to life
  • that the intellect is drowsy. The ability for abstract
  • only appears later. As a result, abstract forms of writing and
  • abstract ideas — how the child copies and adapts to his
  • abstractions, so that we can enter practical life in a vital
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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  • question and as a result, prove themselves to be abstract
  • other than discussion points made in abstract theories; which
  • quite abstract: this is intended in a complete realistic way
  • basically nothing other than abstract principles of an
  • abstract, how unrealistic this was which wanted to be brought
  • introduced, and how the abstract principles — in a bad sense —
  • you take a stand in opposition to such abstract attitudes,
  • how to take what was abstract in thought and to really
  • abstract thinking that one also takes this suggestion only from
  • the point of view of abstract thinking, which I'm only using as
  • out. When we want to deal with things abstractly, we can create
  • routine, cultivated out of the abstractions in these things,
  • indicating realities and not abstract ideas. Obviously one had
  • to express oneself in abstract ideas.
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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  • Christian sense. We don't introduce abstract Anthroposophy
• Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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  • abstract-imagery-life have made greater progress. If we want to
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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  • softly, and in abstractions, it wishes to give us indications
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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  • Abstractly, meaning dishonestly, this is easy to achieve.
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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  • abstraction: Air consists of oxygen and nitrogen. Yes, as long
  • abstraction: oxygen and nitrogen. When we arrive at the
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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  • up to what we have always described with a dry, abstract
  • in this abstract thinking existing as a kind of tenuous
  • abstract forms. Whoever knows spiritual life is able to feel
  • by sharp angles and edges when the abstract thoughts of
  • Imagination, and his thoughts are no longer abstractions, but
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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  • if it's an abstract thing, the personal relationship is at
  • stamp made, first of all because, although very abstract, a
  • taken place. In the future, no abstract relationship will be
  • of the human soul. As thinking is the abstract representative
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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  • imperceptible inwardness as abstract thought. When you sink it
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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  • phenomena and instead seeking an abstractly chaotic path; but
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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  • world is something abstract, something shadowy, something
  • shadowy, abstract thought, but a psychic-spiritual living,
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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  • abstract form, how they rang out to us from all sides of
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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  • corpse for our usual abstract thinking between birth and
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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  • circumstances more or less were delivered to abstract science.
  • most lead to abstract concepts of natural laws. It can lead to
  • real members of abstractions, these people whose practice is
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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  • organism. The three members should not be an abstract,
  • not based on abstract demands of a single party, of a single
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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  • particularly open to embark on an abstract teaching, one can
  • remain abstract, they remain delineated and they don't allow
  • scholarly abstract way, of all kinds of ethic-religious
  • reality but exist in lifeless abstraction. Still, we have
  • thinking adhered to abstraction, totally strange in life where
  • which could only come out of an abstract sensing of a certain
  • other way, what in truth is not some abstract idealism, but is
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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  • terribly consumed by a certain sense for abstraction, for
  • lively into abstract forms, even if from a one-sided view in
  • but not an understanding for some or other general abstract
  • reality, but out of abstract claims or party impulses, is
  • bring this, as it is always meaningful not to remain abstract
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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  • taking abstractions drawn from outer life and forming something
  • just as through abstract principles the Homunculus was formed,
  • derived out of abstractions but out of reality; they would be
  • uniform abstract formulation, should be seen in a threefold
  • thinking patterns due to the latter being more abstract.
  • are abstract and in their abstraction, they are more or less
• Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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  • the universe were not the abstract conceptions they have become
  • vague abstraction. Wagner is expressing a profound truth when he uses
• Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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  • mystical, abstract or indefinite thought. It expressed itself in
  • abstract, logical thought. Even now (at the beginning of the third
  • of the first to change these imaginations into abstract concepts and
  • abstraction had crept into Roman culture, a spirit no longer capable
  • being. The spirit of abstraction had crept in, not yet in the
  • Jesus in the form of an abstract dogma laid down by the Councils and
  • abstraction, albeit working on in the guise of revelation, took its
• Title: Community Building
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  • from drab theories, not from abstract ideas.
  • “With abstract words, with preaching in the ordinary
  • the ideal becomes an abstract thought but idealizes it in such
  • learn to bring this not only to the state of innermost abstract
  • we must learn to guide in a spiritual sense, not in an abstract
  • have the idea of this spiritual in an abstract way and are
• Title: Community Building
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  • reality, is always entirely different from abstract
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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  • not think in the abstract terms in which we think today.
  • thinking has grown abstract. Our thinking tells us
  • existing world contained more than just abstract forces
  • abstract notions. The human ancestor knew that an
  • we have made into an abstract gravitational force.
  • have become an empty abstraction nowadays. Do you think a
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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  • had fewer abstract concepts, a culture that found its own
  • to abstract concepts. That is where the spiritual nature
  • humankind. Nowhere else did human minds rise to abstract
  • ideas in such a way that whilst living in these abstract
  • one of the Goetheanists, moved in a sphere of abstract
  • thoughts and yet, whilst speaking in quite abstract
  • abstract thoughts: as alive as people usually are when
  • humankind can be brought to an abstract uniformity. That
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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  • for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
  • and so on tend to be abstract to an extreme degree.
  • the spirit. We must learn to fill the abstract formulas
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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  • and abstract. It is a question of really seeing the
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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  • the abstract mystical stream, the other the abstract
  • not in the abstract way of mystics but genuinely, we
  • but no knowledge. Experiencing inwardly in a abstract
  • for truth in an abstract way within himself; he or she is
  • at something else. The opposite extreme is abstract
  • unpalatable threshold truth. Everything that is abstract
  • feeblemindedness, abstract mysticism leads to
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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  • we become one-sided, abstract mystics. The contents of a
  • levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
  • abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
  • matters, not the abstract statements made by one person
  • something-ists. We base ourselves on an abstract notion,
  • and the like, i.e. on abstract notions. As soon as we
  • longer dealing in mere logic and abstract notions, we are
  • abstract. Being human we are inclined to say that as soon
  • lines, to accept the abstract notions of parties. There
  • When we are thinking the usual abstract thoughts, what is
  • spirit. It is particularly when we think abstract
  • thinking they are quite correct as far as abstract
  • abstract thinking being merely an image. It may thus be
  • said that when it comes to abstract ideas the physical
  • an abstract mysticism that Will give them everything they
  • need. We could take up such abstract mysticism, but that
  • end to abstract mysticism and to modern science. It will
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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  • empty, abstract thinking, or something like that, but a
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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  • element became something entirely abstract, something
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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  • This only concerns itself with forces that can be abstracted from nature
  • and made comprehensible through abstract ideas, in short, the things that
  • lives. The abstract thinking we use for mathematics, and the various
  • if you use abstract terms to speak of the Christ event that is to come;
  • this has grown abstract. It no longer has relevance in ordinary life. The
  • abstract religious confessions — oh no! He will use the language of
• Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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  • started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
  • their abstract intellect is able to perceive by the
  • three human conditions, albeit in an abstract way: the
  • not be simply resolved by taking three abstractions and
  • build everything up on the basis of three abstract ideas.
  • education are certainly abstract, yet there is still the
  • individuality. Schiller's abstract ideas therefore still
  • go as far as the development of abstract ideas. Goethe
  • did not find it possible to form such abstract ideas. He
  • developing abstract ideas in his letters on aesthetic
  • attempted to express in abstract ideas in his letters on
  • abstract ideas personal, Goethe by not going beyond
  • no more and no less than that the abstract ideal of
  • spirit-man. Our thinking has grown so abstract, however,
  • ‘the spirit’, which in fact means in abstract
  • from the past. Schiller did not allow abstract ideas to
  • beautiful abstract ideas that are gratifying to the soul
• Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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  • in the main abstractions and have no formative force at all. We
  • construct abstract thoughts, unable to govern social life, and
  • abstract “laws of nature,” because the Beings of
  • has become abstract, dwelling in us in such a way that, through
  • the spirit become, especially as abstract “Laws of
• Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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  • abstractions. Old age, nowadays, means the limit up to which a
  • the modern abstractions of various creeds, which at the same
  • aspects of life. They lived out in an abstract fashion what
  • even man into an abstraction, a “citizen of the
  • abstract connection. This view is essentially Roman, as is
  • already abstract, but will become more so under socialist
  • substantial, which binds him to the abstract State and affects
• Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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  • how they long to understand reality by means of abstractions.
  • abstractions. Yet men sleep through such things — how
• Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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  • absolutely true; but becoming an unreal abstraction, elusive,
  • abstractions, just Utopian pointers to an indefinite future. If
  • them: on the other, the proletariat with its acquired, abstract
  • life of men. People have talked in abstractions about morality,
  • abstract kind, like “the seizure of political
  • social life should be an abstract unity, if such a unity could
  • hypnotized by the abstract idea of the “unitary