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- Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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- abstraction, nothing but a piece of daring imagination. We, as human
- an ‘abstraction,’ for to-day man is very far from
- lay aside as abstractions those things which must be attained
- as if outer, abstract ideas were taking root among peoples and
- Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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- particularly in regard to the abstract laws of Nature, which have also
- the face of the spiritual world than the more abstract feelings of
- Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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- no getting away from the fact that a skeleton of abstract concepts
- the living reality this is just as abstract and barren as a
- and drag glorious works of art into the desert of abstract concepts,
- Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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- spiritual science is not a collection of abstract ideas for those
- and sixteenth centuries an age of abstraction, of external science,
- Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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- at certain times, this is the abstract talk of the amateur. The
- Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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- should not be condemned in the abstract as egoistic, for laughter can
- Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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- view of our human world conception we call an abstraction: the spirit
- Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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- abstract speculations. And if, in spite of it all, a feeling of a
- Title: Michelangelo
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- not in abstract theory but appealing to the feelings — is to
- any abstract argument. But if we seriously observe life and try by
- Title: Lecture: Buddha
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- somewhat abstract conception of Buddhism to its fundamentals, we find
- Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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- secrets than all abstract thinking are the words spoken by Goethe
- Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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- Art the fact that Theosophy is not a merely abstract theory and
- Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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- here is not the abstract time of which we usually speak, but
- Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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- abstraction man now accepts as time, but a totality of beings, the
- Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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- abstract conceptions, he will perhaps make diagrams. If we wish to
- Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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- should like to know how an abstract thinker, one who accounts for
- the surface by abstract science, but by that science which has many
- Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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- that if we do not begin with abstract philosophy, or with abstract
- an abstraction, at something thought out. We must also add that the
- Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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- spiritual world, did not speak in this abstract and vague terminology
- teaching was not abstract but very concrete. Even when people of our
- abstract conception of what underlies the Zarathustrian doctrine of
- Title: Lecture: Hermes
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- whole life of soul. A man may imbue his soul with abstract ideas and
- destiny or his happiness may be quite unaffected. Abstract and
- Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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- and we must not only put this to ourselves as a dry abstract
- Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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- Knowledge. His classifications are more in the abstract. We
- Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- not theoretically, or in an abstract sense, but with the whole soul
- Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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- these laws through some sort of abstract science. Theosophy
- does not proceed abstractly. It proceeds from clear
- Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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- concept. Fichte, who wandered on these heights of abstraction,
- merely a playing with abstract words. If we wish to know Hegel's
- express the riddles of the soul in abstract ideas. For him they
- admit that what one said in an abstract answer in the Æsthetic
- Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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- abstract ideals we set before us, but of what we can accomplish in
- proto-plant was an idea, an abstraction, which one receives when one
- that human soul which moves in abstractions, and preferably in those
- direction of the abstract. Now when they combine this
- abstraction with something they come across as soul-power, this is,
- abstraction, is represented to us in the Will-o'-the-Wisps. They take
- one direction or another, it becomes harmful. This abstraction leads
- ideal creations not as something abstract in themselves, but as
- the abstract quality of the concepts, then he is as regards this
- produce light and wisdom out of the purely abstract concepts. Then he
- is an abstract conception, which, were it worked out in the abstract,
- regions of spiritual abstractions, but which handles everything
- Will-o'-the-Wisps is no doubt a reflected picture of how abstract
- Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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- abstract or drawn from thought. They were ideas which could be
- longer the same Goethe who was full of an abstract longing, but is
- spiritual aim of mankind, if it is only sought in an abstract way,
- people an abstract longing will lead to
- Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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- are not mere abstractions. He sees in the spiritual world the true
- abstractly ‘Folk spirit and Time-spirit.’
- remains with one what is nothing else but the abstraction,
- contain another importance. They stand out dry and abstract for the
- man who in any case is an abstractionist, but the man who has once
- these abstract ideas — is carried by them through the world
- of whom the abstractionist would say they are ‘historical
- we see around us, which the ordinary abstractionist describes only
- the abstract words say:
- knowledge which is only an abstraction, a growing together with
- sense observation or abstract understanding, but of knowledge
- of set opinion insist in abstractions concerning something or
- Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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- abstractions, who look up passages in the books of the
- Title: An Impulse for the Future
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- philosophical abstraction entered, and the old images and signs were
- pour in, demanded first the transition through abstract
- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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- of unworldly abstract thought — nothing but a play on
- interest in abstract philosophy. When those who long for
- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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- the various kingdoms do not have certain abstract
- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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- burdened with abstract concepts; what is taught should have a
- have a natural appreciation of things before abstract
- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- is quite useless to attempt a cure by means of abstract
- abstract logic — and our bodily organs are concentrated
- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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- not abstract but creative images. Abstract concepts and ideas
- difference between the effect of abstract concepts and that
- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- judgment and abstract thought. Before puberty the child
- Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture II: The Legend of the Prague Clock
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- abstractly call “time” and “the marching on
- Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture III: Three Teachers with Different Attitudes
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- existence are concerned the best way to avoid abstraction
- Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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- to those who were assembled there. For, the sort of abstract attitude
- Impulse will not remain something abstract or dogmatic. Rather this
- Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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- Nowadays men build up plenty of abstract ideas on this subject.
- Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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- abstract ideas. And the whole of the hostility to the Grail was
- Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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- parents; and out of the abstract soul-substance we form the individual
- Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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- is otherwise merely an abstract idea in our materialistic age, becomes
- Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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- abstract way as one does nowadays; one learned to comprehend the world
- Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XII
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- Only when one abstracts from the physical eye everything that is not
- nature of the physical eye. So too one must abstract from the entire
- of the nerves stream the so-called abstract thoughts, which however
- Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIII
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- he is in fact the Folk Soul. The Folk Soul is no abstraction, but a
- Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XVII
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- The three stages of thought-life: Abstract Thoughts, Imagination, and
- impression we call abstract thought. We can say when we think: I feel
- and the ordinary abstract thinking.
- When man develops further, when abstract thought itself develops to
- imagination gives the picture, not abstract thoughts. In all
- which he no longer thinks merely abstractly, but at all times has his
- Through abstract thinking one makes a copy of something that exists.
- the expression of abstract thoughts, but of pictures. This is why
- the first place within itself: abstract consciousness. All
- consciousness existent in the world also lives in man, in abstract
- Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXXI
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- an abstract remainder of the original teaching of the Indians, which
- Title: Lecture: The Four Temperaments
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- postulating abstract ideas and concepts, but by means of pictures.
- Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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- talked about in the abstract, it is quite clear that the very way a
- Title: Lecture: The Human Spirit and the Animal Spirit
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- in this way, we may say: If we do not approach man with abstract,
- Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 1: The Birth of the Light
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- finally dissolves into a veneration of an abstract ideal that is
- revered only as an abstract ideal.
- The anthroposophical science of the spirit is not mere abstract
- Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 2: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
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- the great festivals. Now they have become abstractions, and the soul
- by abstract science, but what has lived in the Mysteries, in the
- We have not spoken of an abstract feeling for nature today. We have,
- Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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- These things are experienced abstractly today. The ego and what is
- We see that what is meant is not merely an abstraction, but something
- is received today externally and abstractly, those who have understood
- only to something abstract, but also to something by which occult
- Underlying everything is the fact that it is not abstract laws but
- abstract, but in a living way, affects the overall welfare and the
- Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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- This does not mean that people were given a vague abstract account of
- Title: Wisdom of Man: III. Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents and Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
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- limited to the visible; it covers abstract ideas as well as concrete
- Title: Wisdom of the Soul: II. Action and Interaction of the Human Soul Forces.
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- from a quite abstract consideration of this contrast we can learn
- life both abstractly, in detail, and concretely, comprehensively,
- not our intention to describe in an abstract way, but rather to
- Title: Wisdom of the Soul: III. At the Portals of the Senses.
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- depths, we must temporarily interpret them in an abstract way as
- Title: Wisdom of the Soul: IV. Consciousness and the Soul Life.
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- He will find it difficult to endow abstract concepts with sufficient
- incarnation to serve humanity. Do not think of that as an abstract
- Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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- taken from outer perceptions, abstract concepts, like a circle or a
- abstractions, but of the content of the philosophers' minds. The
- Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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- ourselves here to penetrate from the abstract into the concrete and to
- Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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- point is, not that we should know a few single abstract thoughts, but
- Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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- not simply be taken as an abstract thought, for in its content it is
- Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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- obtain a purely abstract idea, which in itself might be contradicted?
- Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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- may perhaps appear to many of you as somewhat abstract. But later on
- been put forward here may appear to many as somewhat abstract; still,
- On these expositions — to which, as they are somewhat abstract,
- Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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- from them an abstract characteristic. So I form for myself this
- develop Monadism.” Monadism is an abstract Spiritism.
- Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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- may perhaps appear to many of you as somewhat abstract. But later on
- been put forward here may appear to many as somewhat abstract; still,
- On these expositions — to which, as they are somewhat abstract,
- Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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- from them an abstract characteristic. So I form for myself this
- develop Monadism.” Monadism is an abstract Spiritism.
- Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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- their abstract similarity to one another, but each one has his own
- Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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- nation-soul is not the empty abstraction of which
- life of the nation-spirit with us is not merely something abstract,
- Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
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- important to acquire not just abstract conceptions, but such pictures
- external observation, and particularly from abstract conceptions, to
- speak today not only in general abstract ideas about the world in
- Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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- Being, not as an abstract image of the World-soul conceived in a
- Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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- Light must therefore be seen not only as the abstract entity which is
- conception, away from the purely abstract outside world.
- faculty as such can recreate. No learned abstraction can ever bring about
- abstractions and a sclerotic reproduction of what is previously known. That
- Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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- abstract logic which says that since the future does not yet exist, it can
- the spirit which works in the world — not an imaginary, abstract spirit
- Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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- which cannot abstractly be made to harmonize. If someone tried to unite these
- two streams in abstract reflection, tried to develop lightly a philosophy
- enormous error. Life does not work according to abstractions. Life works in
- such a way that these abstract visions can only be achieved after long
- made harmonious by reflection. It is always an indication of abstract, dry
- aspects by some abstraction would leave out of account that there is more
- remains an abstraction if our thinking tries to impose it on our life. The
- abstractions but with those truths which are arrived at from different points
- progress in parallel. Any abstract harmonising is of no use here. Spiritual
- Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 8: Human Conscience
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- comparison with what it is now? Only a quite abstract way of thinking could
- Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture I
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- or macrocosm. Though this is a truth, yet it is a very abstract
- abstract conceptions to which mankind had at last attained,
- Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture II
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- then not so abstract, so trivial as it is to-day.
- Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture III
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- — as a quite abstract and general truth — that in every
- Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture IV
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- than the somewhat abstract statement: “He taught with authority
- him in an abstract way. For instance, it enters his consciousness for
- Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture VI
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- abstract spirituality of Christ — the Gospel according to
- abstractly as is done to-day, but they will perceive how this spirit
- things which might be accepted quite abstractly take on a special
- ever more actual; and not the abstract Christ only, but He who sent
- Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture VII
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- clairvoyant imaginative content and given abstract forms. From this
- Title: Excursus/Mark: IV: The Path of Theosophy from Former Ages until Now
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- feeling-soul, rational-soul and consciousness-soul are no abstract
- Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I - Lecture IV: Theosophy and Christianity
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- human type, thought in the abstract. This is characteristic that the 19th century
- an abstract, shadowy concept nor a single human being in its reality, but really
- who wanted to replace Christianity with an abstract moral philosophy. However,
- still imagine the ideals at most which contain abstractions. Then he speaks
- Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III - Lecture III: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part III: Soul and Mind
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- were not taught about such questions in the abstract. Truths were handed down
- and desires to that to which one attributes a shadowy or abstract existence
- usually. What could be more abstract for the human being of the everyday life
- so far that the world of ideas, usually called abstract, moves, enchants, soaks
- not to an abstract truth, to a concrete truth, not to logical proofs, if it
- The thoughts of the human being are only abstract thoughts, because the everyday
- thought, the mind which lives in us does not become dull and abstract like in
- Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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- consideration of facts and what one abstracts from it. Anything else should
- that we experience as colour-fresh and lively contents into abstract processes
- Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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- people. It was no vague, abstract account of what was to happen to
- Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 9: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 3
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- self] these are mere words, or at best, abstract ideas. Nothing,
- Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 11: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 1
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- contrast, take the fashionable abstraction that no longer has
- Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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- body with pictures, without abstract concepts. And the easier it will
- ability to conceptualise abstractly.
- Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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- is no abstract science; only a science which exists in pictures, in
- ask me what Freemasonry is really about, I must answer with abstract
- conscious way, so that these ideals are not just abstract
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture II: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Exoteric
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- Fichte turns out to be a thinker floating in abstract heights,
- concept. He, who walked in such abstracts heights, in
- a play of abstract words.
- soul in abstractions. He regarded the single soul riddles as
- must say: what Schiller says in the abstract in the aesthetic
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture III: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Esoteric
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- depend on our abstract ideals if we want to understand the
- lines as an archetypal plant was an idea, something abstract
- abstractions and lives preferably in the ideas of the things
- abstract. If they connect abstractness with anything that faces
- abstractness is represented to us in the will-o'-the-wisps.
- critical property arises from the abstractness that develops
- as anything abstract for himself, but to look at it in such a
- only abstract, from the mere concepts. Then it does not lead
- is that at first? An abstraction. If he developed it in the
- abstract, it would become an empty thing that kills any life as
- abstraction, which handles, however, everything healthfully and
- likeness of how abstract spirits act superciliously on human
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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- that are abstractions, but about real beings. As to him, the
- the Bible in symbols in the abstract. Some freethinkers have
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VI: Superstition from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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- thing from abstraction where one applies it and sees that it
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VIII: Issues of Health in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- originate from an unrealistic way of thinking, from an abstract
- point is that all those mental pictures which we abstract only
- organism. Someone who sticks to the purely abstract mental
- abstractions in his concepts only, makes his soul dull and
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IX: Tolstoy and Carnegie
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- of the divine. Without being brought by reason to abstractions,
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture X: The Practical Development of Thinking
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- If he even forbids to himself to form abstractions, then he
- actively and not in the abstract, it makes pliable and
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XI: The Invisible Human Members and Practical Life
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- remain dry ideas and abstractions. They emit warmth and bliss;
- exercise. Who has a living feeling, not only an abstract idea
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XII: The Secret of the Human Temperaments
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- us. We cannot solve it positioning abstract images and concepts
- abstract images and concepts here and there, but we have to
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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- There were the concepts also abstract, which were coined by a
- only that Goethe, who is fulfilled with an abstract longing,
- only from an abstract striving. They directly approach the
- the spirit in the details: with them, the abstract longing
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIV: Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Esoteric
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- the times, are not mere abstractions. He beholds the true real
- abstract.
- abstraction, the ideas, which extend from epoch to epoch, what
- experience of the spiritual world. They appear dry and abstract
- with someone who is generally an abstract fellow. However, who
- grasps these abstract ideas — they carry him through the
- the old helmets lie those beings go out about whom the abstract
- usual abstract fellow describes only with the intellect that is
- the words say in the abstract:
- such knowledge that is not abstract, not a coalescence with the
- sensuous observations or intellectual abstractions, but that is
- persist in an abstract opinion about this or that. Like a
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XV: Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- abstraction. Nietzsche was painfully affected by the fact that
- bridge from the abstract world of human mental pictures to the
- abstract will to power, which has, actually, no contents. Power
- is something quite abstract if it is not said what should have
- Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVI: Isis and Madonna
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- abstract or even allegorical if it is forced again — I
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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- grasped vividly, not abstractly, not theoretically or
- talk not abstractly, but immediately concretely
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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- abstractions and dilettantism which speaks of the equality of
- dilettantism to speak about an abstract equality of all
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture V: The Meaning of Immortality of the Human Soul
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- abstractions, are nothing real. For Lessing imagines that the
- I would not like to speak here abstractly.
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VII: The Moral Basis of Human Life
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- I have never spoken to you in abstractions
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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- consciousness soul, we do not talk about abstractions or about
- his ramble and clever soul, however, only with abstract
- the Greek poetry become more and more abstract, already from
- abstractions. His soul had developed too far to show life in
- abstract ideas of God, freedom and immortality. His soul is too
- and to whom the old traditional powers became abstract which
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture X: Homunculus
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- contains the everlasting soul. It is a mere abstraction that
- puts an abstraction, he puts something supersensible. This
- bad abstraction who search the “real.” However,
- his abstraction. One will even concede to the monists that this
- abstraction would be clairvoyant if they beheld it in the
- only at that in himself what is abstraction, what is something
- Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture XI: Spiritual Science as a Treasure for Life
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- abstract knowledge. This also expresses itself in the fact that
- penetrate them from the mind in such a way that an abstract
- instinctively because their thinking will not be an abstract
- spiritualism. With an abstract thinking, one does not figure
- how an abstract thinking positions itself in life. Such
- abstract, dead thinking which is “Homunculism”
- Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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- abstract and uncomfortable what is brought forward about the
- abstractness of many writings and talks that want to penetrate
- are by no means only abstract, but the thinkers put their
- abstract.
- satisfaction in abstract thoughts who is attached to such a
- Greek world to the abstract thoughts of “primordial
- practical life if anybody grasps such abstract concepts like
- which appear too sober, dry and abstract to the other human
- life to an abstract world of thoughts. Nietzsche felt the
- due to these dried up abstractions and if he shows that even in
- abstractions and says to himself, in these abstractions you
- are ever so thin like cobwebs and ever so abstract. However,
- way: what is apparently so abstract is still the greatest
- worlds that can appear so empty because of their abstractions.
- something abstract and impersonal. One must feel this to bring
- that is relieved from the abstract thought which refers us to
- have just described as the abstract and sober of rational
- Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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- He could not dress in abstract words what
- Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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- abstraction, a daring daydreaming. However, we need something
- something abstract to which one must ascend in spirit with
- as if, so to speak, outer abstract ideas intervene in the
- Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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- his wholly logical, abstract explanations, one finds an old
- directed to the consideration of the world. What was abstract
- dry abstraction that the monad is a reflection of the universe.
- reflection of the universe. We see nothing but abstract
- longer talk about the soul in abstractions, but in real
- Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture II: Destiny and Soul
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- abstract information: after the human being has woken, he
- Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture III: Immortality, the Forces of Destiny, and the Course of Life
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- our life as abstract this mental picture even today may appear
- Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture V: The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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- they live only in the psychic if they are abstract. They spread
- abstractness to reality. Troxler says that one has to accept a
- Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VI: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
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- the mental pictures do not proceed as abstractly as they
- spiritual world, than if one wants the abstract catchwords of
- and people believe to develop special idealism if they abstract
- Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VII: The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul
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- had to lead you through an abstract line of thought today
- Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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- in such a case soon remembers that one appeals to abstract
- abstractions, to sapless and feeble concepts. However, one
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- to keep away abstractions up to the characterised age and to
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- able to do something here not with a few abstract dogmas, with
- themselves to an abstract approach to life but for those who
- spiritual science as an abstraction, as a sermon of nice
- learn, not from abstract theories. However, what gives an inner
- complete abstraction in the materialistic view. This can no
- like common spirits and group spirits are no abstractions for
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- those who are usually regarded as practical have only the kind of abstract
- in nature and lives more and more in abstractions. His concepts become
- on the other hand, living in concepts that are completely abstract,
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- until age seven. You do not have the foolish abstract
- abstract and no longer teaches what matter really is. What
- abstractions, to mere theory. In the cultures of antiquity,
- we today abstractly call “false,” people sensed
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- abstract interpretation of the law. The majority opinion is what
- speaking of abstract things if they talk about folk-spirit or
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- Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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- Everything must be given life again through the spirit, that abstract
- Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture. Winter Session, 1911-1912
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- Science must not remain abstract theory or teaching, but must be made
- Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 3: 'Chance' and Present-day Consciousness. An Easter Meditation
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- those abstract laws which it calls the laws of Nature,
- anything except the abstract, laws of outer Nature and will insist
- the life of abstract reason and intellect, into the domain of the
- manifested laws of Nature are not abstract laws but, in a spiritual
- wonderful way in that to the abstract words: And they were
- Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 4: The Forces of the Human Soul and Their Inspirers. Kalewala: The Epic
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- which were subsequently to lead to the much more abstract, scientific
- Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 5: The Idea of Reincarnation and Its Introduction Into Western Culture
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- abstract laws and principles, will do more than the external teachings
- Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 6: The Mission of the Earth
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- religion! Only a mind abstracted from reality and incapable of
- abstract concept, people allege that we speak of the Christ as the
- Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 9: Form-creating Forces
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- would be pure abstraction to say that the path of the Mystic has
- true occultism will ever speak of such an abstract principle of
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture One
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- divine traditions. But when we pass from these abstract
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Two
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- abstractions they become meaningless. We must endeavour to
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Three
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- or trust? We have a far too theoretic, a far too abstract
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Four
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- today. The word which has become abstract today must regain
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Seven
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- Manichaeans did not cultivate abstract ideas which divorced
- were alike incapable of abstract thinking. In earlier
- not purely abstract, but which were sufficiently powerful to
- West therefore was driven to an abstract mode of thinking and
- abstract theorizing. And one of those who succumbed to it
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Eight
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- was a purely abstract concept at that time. Man could
- must not be content with abstractions, one must be prepared
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Nine
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- one thinks in an abstract way like Kjellen. The moment one
- an abstraction. We shall never see him in the right light
- Title: Building Stones: Lecture Ten
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- symbols is different from our response to abstract ideas. The
- Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XI: Origin and Goal of the Human Being
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- if one speaks in such abstract higher ideas. Hence, the creation history
- thought if you can abstract from the sensuousness-imbued thoughts what
- Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XII: Goethe's Secret Revelation I
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- to teach in abstract words who treated the loftiest questions in pictures,
- Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIII: Goethe's Secret Revelation II
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- the will-o'-the-wisps have ideas and concepts, but these are abstractions,
- Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVI: The Great Initiates
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- these are only certain abstract, academic thoughts, the highest thoughts
- Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIX: Schiller and the Present
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- does not always need to understand and realise in the abstract what
- Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XX: The Divinity Faculty and Theosophy
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- natural, if you consider the matter in the abstract, ideally to call
- which discusses every word in the abstract that is spoken in the everyday
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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- him to understand many phenomena. The abstract ideals of
- youth, the abstract discussions about freedom, indulging
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture II
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- evolution is dreadfully abstract; once its crudeness has been
- can produce abstract ideas like clockwork, and are so sure of
- their judgments because of the transparency of their abstract
- thoughts, lost in nebulous abstraction, could become so
- reality. He recognizes that thoughts have become abstract to
- poured our abstract ideas concerning socialism,
- especially in marxism. Combinations of such abstractions are
- and so on. We also have abstract ideas about conservatism. On
- the basis of all these abstractions — abstract because
- abstractions with reality. Instead of the abstract ideas he
- who for once realizes that the rarefaction, the abstractness
- However, he expresses this in today's abstract terminology by
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture III
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- Man has become abstract; he no longer experiences things as
- impossible through abstract metaphysics held aloof from
- abstract metaphysics, which is the only standpoint acceptable
- directly to Christ as abstract metaphysics leads to an
- succumb to the kind of abstractions I have described because
- That is why nowadays all concepts, all ideas are abstract.
- and the unreality and abstraction of ideas. Indeed our
- themselves abstract. When a bridge is built and it collapses,
- present time. Without it abstract programs will continue to
- is utterly abstract with no relation to reality, whereas what
- taken. Later, when the abstract replies had reached Russia
- — replies containing the same kind of abstractions as
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture IV
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- of physical things through abstract, shadow-like concepts, so
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture V
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- Aristotle did they become abstractions. Franz Brentano made
- and abstraction in his works, and that applies also to the
- equally abstract answer. He said: Good and bad have their
- decades of struggle, had reached an abstraction, the simple
- us has been caused because we live in abstractions, in
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VI
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- abstract manner, its immense importance may not be
- the abstract manner so much preferred nowadays. To enrich the
- flowers,” which is an abstraction of them all. So too
- is it an abstraction to speak of nothing but spirit, spirit
- everything, always to seek abstractions. That is why the
- illustrates that looking everywhere for abstractions is in a
- here the gypsy showed his inclination for abstractions
- abstract. What I mean is something much more alive, something
- have described. The more our ordinary abstract mental
- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VII
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- Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VIII
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- truths do not reach the human soul as abstractions, but even
- disposition in man. If one clings to the abstract opinion
- Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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- abstract subject, but for the Middle Ages, and even for later times,
- Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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- abstraction — of ideas and natural laws, the human soul
- Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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- never possible on the path of logic, of abstract thoughts. Such
- 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: 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: 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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- 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: 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
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