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- Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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- eminently concrete changes into abstraction. It might be said: as long
- the names of the alphabet consecutively, would not be the abstraction
- speech what is abstractly expressed by the words: Man is made up of
- in the abstract by saying: Man is composed first of physical body,
- The first is abstraction, the second reality.
- consciousness in an abstract way by consecrating individual days to
- What is meant to be expressed here in a more abstract way, was more
- has become very abstract. Going back into times of which history tells
- find that grammar was not the abstract subject it is today but that
- astronomy. Arithmetic was not taught as the abstraction of today, but
- the abstract if, being a keen musician, he has not already run away
- abstraction and this has very little to do with experience.
- splendor and majesty of the starry sky was condensed into the abstract
- again from the abstract to the concrete. It is indeed important to
- abstraction took hold of European culture and thus resulted in the
- logos there remained logic — abstract thought.
- he longed for liberation from the abstraction of modern times, from
- Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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- only general, abstract ideas of this interpenetration; we will reach a
- Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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- Abstract thinkers such as Kant also employ an abstract expression.
- abstract modern thinking has become when it uses abstract words for
- what consciousness conceives of in abstractions is an actual factor in
- Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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- the grave of Isis, a mathematical abstraction. Then comes the search for
- Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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- tendencies to evil. We must, in the first place, altogether abstract
- indeed become an abstract thing; and all the efforts that are being
- Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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- knowledge of nature. The knowledge of nature is abstracted, is driven
- into the abstract so that we cannot grasp the human being's real
- Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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- Though not of course in the abstract, intellectual manner of today, the
- of mineral, of plant, and animal. These people did not absorb the abstract
- and warmth our mere thinking that is otherwise dead and abstract.
- Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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- they invented so many abstract educational systems. The essential thing
- something alive, something that cannot be reduced to abstract principles
- improvement people long for today is of extremely abstract dimensions.
- Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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- does not merely think of jurisprudence in the abstract, but, with sound
- the trend towards abstraction — towards what was subsequently to be
- soul in the scientific lore of nature, in the abstract, unspiritual
- Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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- the same time denuded qualitatively — it becomes abstract. In feeling
- you see, lives in us as abstraction only. In feeling, inasmuch as we
- we merely negate. It is an abstract process. We do not rouse ourselves
- relation to the outer world — to the level of abstract judgment.
- Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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- more concrete reality than they have in our age of abstraction.
- abstract feelings in regard to ugliness by his features-he makes a
- with his rationalistic intellect and love of abstraction he tends to
- of the three abstractions of Truth, Beauty, Goodness. In short, we can
- abstract knowledge of and inconsequent chatter about goodness, if
- Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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- modern speech, which has already become abstract. For this reason, I
- Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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- abandonment of everything concrete in favour of abstractions, and
- gradually these abstractions are abandoned, too. At the beginning of
- nothing can be done with such an abstraction, for one understands
- such abstractions as elan vital and other frightful
- abstractions, which have no meaning but are only admissions of
- Man (1795). It was a time given more to abstractions. Today we
- idealism. But if we look at this more abstract character of the time
- of Goethe and Schiller, we can see that the abstractions in
- metaphysical abstraction. What Schiller calls the liberation of
- abstract conceptual form, that can be traced in Schiller's
- abstraction as the tree-trunk. The so-called “earth's
- themselves to think abstractly only in so far as they know what they
- not possessed of the purely abstract thinking we have, and need to
- Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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- terribly abstract if he gave himself up to rational necessity. He must
- the same way a keen abstract thinker and he had less poetic passion,
- of abstract philosophical talk, including talk about rational
- these are abstractions if one contrasts them with one another
- world and its mysteries in terms of philosophical abstractions. And it
- way of looking at things, developed by Schiller in an abstract
- thought in abstractions, possessed spirituality in his abstract
- have the mere abstract universe; everywhere man is in some way
- thrown together abstractly.
- abstract thinking on the other, particularly in relation to the social
- Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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- of abstract science, and it is this. These subconscious members of the
- awareness of the presence of an abstract spiritual world that is
- the lines of abstract formulae solely because the Christ Impulse has
- within the abstract.
- abstract the two things out of it space and time. Space and
- Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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- abstract, shadowy intellectualism prevalent in every branch of
- man can achieve nothing better than the forming of abstract concepts
- 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: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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- approaches the abstract. And behind this lies a fact of great
- Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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- abstraction but a reality which transcends and works into the
- Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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- less dreamt, slept through by mankind, that in any case abstract
- Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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- could really say: we see them. Entirely abstract thinking has only
- that which has become the abstract script. This no longer expresses
- mysteries, but gradually, since it has become abstract, only serves
- his brother but his opponent, the hero of the abstract script of
- Phoenicia. From Phoenicia back to Egypt the abstract-script has come,
- concept in the abstract script has also found expression in the
- abstractions not immediately to the quite empty
- abstractions of today but to the somewhat fuller abstractions of
- think nowadays in an abstract way, inasmuch as they desire to know
- then today, with the abstract perception that you have? You discover
- today it is placed at man's own discretion to observe abstractly and
- to reflect, conceive abstractly. Over the whole life was spread
- to the fifth Post-Atlantean epoch in which abstraction has gradually
- abstract. Read afterwards in my
- where I speak of the nominalism and realism of the Middle Ages. Abstraction
- tormented themselves in the Middle Ages, when the abstractive
- what role abstractions play! Nowadays one thinks no more about
- it; one has already become used to abstractions; one does not strive
- to get beyond the abstract impulse but, on the contrary, to get
- to take the universals, the abstractions, as abstractions, and
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- Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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- was not an abstract new Isis, but an actual, real new Isis. The
- a spring. We have seen how we live in the age of abstractions, where
- men's words and concepts have only an abstract meaning, where man
- such things with the modern abstract words. For such things it is
- this new humanity is still only master of the abstract word, the
- abstract concept, the abstract idea and is far removed from the
- recipe for its abstract spirit is depicted on a tombstone in Mölln
- Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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- abstraction in the sense we have come to know it, namely estrangement
- as modern humanity forms its abstract, its straw-like abstract,
- not even straw, but paper-abstract concepts of sun, moon and stars,
- abstractions one cannot form much idea of the intimate relation
- confront with the real, abstractions and things estranged from
- himself should begin to wish to escape from abstraction, to lay aside
- to approach the real and get beyond abstractions.
- abstraction, that is no actuality. One only approaches the real when
- much inclined to take a lively interest in abstractions, to become
- enthusiastic through abstractions.
- Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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- result of our always seeking to understand through abstract
- concepts. But one cannot understand everything through abstract
- abstract concepts; one requires something different for the
- abstract, it seems paradoxical and hard to understand, but yet the
- abstractly, as modern science does, but regard him as picture in his
- not yet got, and which will bring to expression, not abstractly, but
- Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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- age has become so abstract, has been formed so purely by the head, it
- abstract, paradoxical, but they correspond to profound realities;
- say, as something abstract. But it is fruitful, it can remould the
- acquire is abstract Socialism, which does not proceed from concrete
- Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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- abstract manner the beginning and the end of the world, that it
- although in a certain abstract manner of the truths which
- Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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- much more; it was just an abstract and thorny bramble of thoughts. By
- real logic, a logic of reality, and the merely abstract logic of the
- different from an abstract logic. What may be deduced logically, need
- the abstract thinking logic, which merely takes hold of the head, and
- Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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- to measure, number and weight. It is the abstract concept
- the bent towards abstract thinking, the tendency of thought to work
- what lives in abstract reason and what lives in the word can only
- pervert our clarity of consciousness. Abstract reason is, after all,
- carried into the word itself. And their thinking was not abstract and
- any means the abstract concept was imbued with life.
- impossible because he did not pass on to abstract thoughts as we have
- there is a certain affinity between abstract thought and the
- the entropy of the Earth. All these things are abstractions, derived
- Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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- them merely from the logical and abstract point of view, merely place
- to abstract ideas which have no real content. Jacob Boehme gathered
- consideration, but they remain abstractions, shadowy thought-pictures
- hovers into infinitudes but is nevertheless abstract. And that which
- nowadays by the abstract word will. It is a concrete
- times men did not use the abstract word think to express
- described. Nor did he speak in an abstract way of the will
- astral nature, from the fluidic to the aeriform. The abstract ideas
- abstract concepts would have appeared to the thinkers of old. They
- purely abstract will-process, of a purely abstract thought-process,
- become abstract; man was obliged to look, not into his own being but
- looks out into nature and evolves his abstract concepts. None the
- Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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- thought prevails from the abstraction of existence up to the highest
- about abstract being by means of logic, thoughts of nature, thoughts
- abstract name ‘philosophy’) lives for 700 years in the
- Spiritual Science gives vitality to what is otherwise abstract, and
- Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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- find the abstract truths that are the pride of present-day humanity.
- Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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- when knowledge is no longer obtained by means of combining abstract,
- Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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- of abstractions, this reunion of the moon with the earth is placed thousands
- go on dreaming, vaguely and in the abstract, of some form of Divinity, but he
- own shadowy thoughts. It is not enough today to speak in abstract terms of the
- thoughts become realities. Dreadfully abstract theories are hurled at men
- Abstract statements of this kind altogether fail to convey the full and
- science of colour must be lifted out of the realm of abstract physics into a
- a series of abstract thoughts they are supposed to be able to acquaint
- abstract a form in the universities must be transformed and must lead to a
- not give way to the easy course of assuming the existence of an abstract God,
- To cultivate Spiritual Science is no abstract pursuit. To cultivate Spiritual
- Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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- study the natural world purely in the light of its abstract laws;
- Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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- dead, abstract concepts and to penetrate into living, concrete
- explanations on the most important facts of life in a few abstract
- contains more than a few abstract sentences,
- they should penetrate. For abstract sentences which are quite
- Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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- abstract concepts. On the other hand, those concepts handed down as
- Title: Lecture: The Universe
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- stage, but in an abstract way. In the past, he grew
- the Fifteenth Century, he is growing into his abstractions,
- for a machine is also an abstraction. Since the return of
- Title: Lecture: The Templars
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- infinite. That is an altogether abstract conception. The truth is that time
- Title: Lecture: The Seeds of Future Worlds
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- external nature, we only built up abstract laws. We come, in other
- necessary to change the whole form of our consciousness. The abstract
- Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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- clothing them in the abstract words of modern language. That is
- Title: Lecture: Realism and Nominalism
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- an abstract way, their contrast will not be very evident. We might
- already considered ideas and thoughts as something abstract, but they
- called these abstractions a reality, because they were the result of
- this real being of an earlier age into the abstract idea.
- they had grown abstract. This was the last stage of the old
- was very thin indeed. When the age of abstraction or of
- Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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- transformed everything into abstractions. The course which I
- Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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- in a somewhat abstract way, and to make it more concrete I
- utterly hollow and abstract it all was, for which Woodrow
- Wilsonism, and how hollow and abstract it all is. Among us,
- — the type of all that is abstract, all that is most
- merely signifies an abstraction. And it is an abstraction
- Title: Lecture: Brunetto Latini
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- abstractly of the Laws of Nature; they would on no account
- proceeded all that was subsequently felt as abstract Laws of
- Title: Lecture: Hygiene - a Social Problem
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- has become abstract, so seldom grasping the social feelings and
- up all manner of abstract, mystical theories about this immortal soul
- by the abstract concepts of modern science, but because it shows
- abstract tittle-tattle about a soul independent of the bodily nature
- processes which are then described according to the abstract concepts
- the world on the basis of purely abstract concepts. Healing can never
- spring from abstract concepts, but only from a true knowledge of the
- pure abstraction. Whereas the right way to proceed is to study how
- is that it does not speak in abstractions of a nebulous Spirit, like
- give utterance to abstract theories — man consists of such and
- from an abstract science of education, a school doctor who turns up
- Title: Lecture: Concerning Electricity
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- that time to imagine, at least abstractly, the spiritual in Nature.
- it!” — But this can only be done in an abstract way. For
- Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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- pictorial, and the pre-earthly life is no longer an abstraction but a
- solely on an abstract spiritual conception, for such a conception is
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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- concrete realities and not merely as abstract formulations.
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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- civilization, for they see things in abstract terms and know
- something nice in an abstract way is not enough. People must
- abstractions. Yet they will have to learn to have such ideas,
- Modern abstract thinking immediately needs an apology, even if
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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- ideas people have today, are abstract and crude; they are
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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- us, and this makes our thoughts abstract. We have abstract
- abstract, and the difference is enormous. If you get up
- not abstract, dead ones that come from the head — they
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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- merely take what I am saying as an abstract truth but let it
- intelligent. The abstract truth is: the intellect is
- content in the living truth compared to the dead, abstract
- how immensely abstract they are, with everything forced
- generation is mainly educated to think in abstract terms, and
- keeps confusing abstract and living ways of thinking. This is
- friends or enemies today on a purely abstract basis. There is
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 8: Abstraction and Reality
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- Abstraction and Reality
- time we must come to realize the distinction between abstract
- literally inclined to think in abstractions. This takes them
- thinking about the physical world in abstract terms. We can
- then in human actions. And we can see how abstract thinking
- reality is in many ways seen in an abstract way. People look
- these about — the more abstract the better.
- it cannot be decided by using generalized abstract ideas of
- — which in our time means the most abstract —
- achievements of abstract thinking when it is addressing
- most abstract of abstract ideas which, however, can only be
- time. Life is full of contradictions. Abstract and
- the abstract deliberations which we can always go into, but
- abstractionists today, and one feels like saying that if you
- Abstract concepts are like this: we have them, but the
- abstract concept. Concepts based on reality hold within them
- is full of concepts and ideas. I also said that abstract
- scientific way, combining, abstracting and making all kinds
- this abstract, unrealistic system to reality, which made
- things in an abstract sense but above all of calling for a
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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- abstractions over and over again and to say something as
- abstract as: ‘Human beings must fight Ahriman.’ Such an
- abstract formula will get us nowhere. At the present time
- powers by simply using the abstract formula: ‘Those powers
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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- is, of course, anything but the abstract mineral entity
- abstractions and, indeed, is most useful when it enters into
- all kinds of abstractions. People will need this science for
- future. To teach children abstract notions of nature and the
- crystal to an octahedral one. Instead of the abstract
- abstractions which are taught as history today, but again to
- much more useful than all the historical abstractions
- abstract laws of nature. These are a few thoughts I wanted to
- — and other abstract formulations of this kind. Of
- abstractions.
- again and again the same abstractions: the Reformation
- and thither in the typical fashion of all abstractionists who
- typical instance of the abstract way of thinking which must
- abstract way.
- abstract — though here applied to things of the spirit
- — which likes to see itself in the abstract and in
- abstractions, and we are pushed hither and thither among
- has gone so far in his abstract thinking that he identifies
- is what one gets when abstraction is taken to its extreme.
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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- poor if we base ourselves on abstract definitions. Yes, it is
- into the cosmos, as it were, though in entirely abstract
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 14: Into the Future
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- entirely abstract, it is necessary to characterize many of
- abstract spiritual entities; you would really have to go into
- today when, in fact, they are the most abstract of theorists
- to lull people to sleep with abstract concepts and make them
- Title: Lecture: Fall and Redemption
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- abstract thinking, but in real thinking.
- Title: Lecture: Man's Fall and Redemption
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- The abstract,
- are dead and for this reason they are abstract. But our thinking is
- of knowledge is quite abstract.
- most incredibly abstract explanation. “Beautiful” is a
- For us today it is abstract. In fact, there has been an interesting
- Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 2
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- abstraction as from a terrible and insidious disease. This
- Universe with a few abstract concepts; it would fain be
- astronomers can calculate with their quite abstract
- an abstract mathematics. Yet this is what humanity needs to
- only wants to enter into things with abstract intellect
- of the materialist abstractions of the 19th century. What
- we see not a mere sum of abstractions or abstract ideas but a
- Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 3
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- was not pursued with the abstract calculations of to-day, but
- means an abstract knowledge which they had, of man's relation
- Title: Lecture: East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
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- light, but in an abstract way.
- cold abstract knowledge which led us into the misery of the
- Title: Lecture: Human Freedom and Its Connection with the Mystery of Golgotha
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- abstract, not merely theoretical, but one that fills the whole
- Title: Lecture: Knowledge Pervaded with the Experience of Love
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- more be able to speak not of lifeless ideas and abstractions, but
- moment of Greek life, the Greek rose up to the abstraction of
- example Parmenides, speaks of the abstract idea of the
- take this along, we cannot go beyond the dry, banal, abstract
- Title: Lecture: Factors of Karma, Deficiencies in Psychoanalysis
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- not in general and vague abstractions but in reality. It is so
- Title: Lecture: Matter Incidental to the Question of Destiny
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- criticise it, giving ourselves up to an abstract idealism; ...
- Title: Lecture: The Relation of Man to the Hierarchies
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- power of the speaker. These things are not so abstract as
- Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture III: The Easter Imagination
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- abstract way, as the usual account suggests, but because
- atom of carbon and two of oxygen, is merely an abstraction, an
- Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture IV: The St. John Imagination
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- the moral world-order does not exist only in ourselves as abstract
- Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture V: The Working Together of the Four Archangels
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- he sees how little are human errors compatible with the abstract but
- Title: St. Augustine
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- life in which was revealed, not merely as an abstract life, but
- phenomena, they then put abstract ideas in their place. —
- which gave man a number of abstract concepts. But a concrete
- first abstractly and philosophically for a bridge between the
- he came at first to all kinds of abstract thoughts in the
- appeared impossible to him, with the methods of abstractions
- World-views individually in the abstract, but one must regard
- abstract, but to look at it quite unprejudiced, and then such
- Title: World History: Lecture I: Evolution of the Soul and of Memory
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- their head, who did not experience any such abstract content of
- not give themselves up to abstractions as we do. To experience
- have the abstract life of feeling still. But who of us knows
- abstraction, from the solid, firm Cosmos — in the same
- experience only abstract thoughts! What are these in reality,
- cleverest of our abstract thoughts. Anatomy and physiology know
- and more powerful than the abstract knowledge of the greatest
- relate his heart to the Sun in accordance with some abstract
- abstract memories in our head. That could not be done by a man
- course of time can be evoked again later. This quite abstract
- abstractness of thought take entirely as a matter of course;
- Title: World History: Lecture II: Mysteries of 'Asia'
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- of the human head, was unknown. So too was the abstract feeling
- was different. Of course the abstract forms of letters which we
- Title: World History: Lecture IV: Atlantean Wisdom in the Mysteries of Hibernia, Gilgamish and Eabani at Ephesus, Logos Mysteries of Artemis at Ephesus
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- scarcely be able to experience anything but quite abstract
- abstract knowledge, categories, and to push back the other.
- Title: World History: Lecture VI: Mysteries of the Ancient Near East Enter Europe
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- abstractions. In Rome the very Gods themselves became
- abstractions. We have reached a time when mankind has no longer
- authors, and his more abstract and logical writings are no
- what was once exercise, work, active power into abstract knowledge,
- Title: World History: Lecture VII: The Fifteenth Century and the Transition from Mind-Soul to Spiritual-Soul
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- real substance of man's nature to these material abstractions
- was for them no mere general principle in the abstract: had
- piteously abstract, but to observe and note the marvellous
- Title: World History: Lecture VIII: The Burning of the Ephesian Temple and the Goetheanum
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- to speak with abstract words; to speak spiritually demands the
- Title: World History: Lecture IX: World History in the Light of Anthroposophy
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- the abstract ideas which man applies to everything to-day. With
- Title: Goethe, Comte and Bentham
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- an abstract Ego of those shadowy ideas and concepts which fill
- abstract concepts. And so came the centuries where, in place of the
- they put abstract ideas, a metaphysic of abstract concepts. The
- as in the place of living Gods there now appeared abstract,
- earth; one came to command and the other to obey. Abstractions
- brought disbelief in the abstract concepts, in metaphysics.
- deal depends on it. It is not enough to speak abstractly on the
- his trinity, is humanity itself in the abstract, spread out over
- Title: Whitsuntide in the Course of the Year
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- the macrocosm is merely an abstraction, Nor should we think
- that we can do very much if we hold to abstract ideas about
- Title: Meditation and Concentration
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- unity, arrive at all possible abstractions in thought, while
- is generally deduced, abstract truths and beings would form
- spiritual or abstract entities like these, but sense-like
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture I
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- problem philosophically in abstract thoughts as Schiller had
- abstract way, Goethe presented it in a magnificent visible form
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture II
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- really makes it possible to form concepts, to think. Abstract
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture III
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- abstract thinking whatever, but only through the succession of
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture IV
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- as the earlier evolutionary periods required the abstract
- can already point today, not merely abstractly but quite
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture V
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- abstractions but in lithic detail, the individual life-melodies
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VI
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- simply criticize it or surrender to an abstract idealism,
- an abstract way by hypocrisy when we have to do with things
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture IX
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- things are not so abstract as certain persons wish to represent
- Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture II
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- shown by the bourgeoisie with their abstract ideas; the
- abstract way to avoid the breaking of heads. Thus in a
- Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture III
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- abstracted from the physical man.
- . then this higher self is a mere empty abstraction with no
- of empty abstractions, and at the same time signifies that we
- abstract concepts I have been describing, they are concrete
- of the Godhead, now became an abstract concept — Pneuma.
- longer. Everything now becomes quite abstract with the
- Romans, completely abstract; concepts and nothing more. The
- Romans are the people of abstract concepts.
- abstraction; in the midst stands the abstract concept. And it
- to the abstract concept. You can see all this in what is
- in reality, ware only names, only expressions, abstractions
- and they became abstractions more and more. For Greek a
- gradually became an abstraction and the Roman Caesar was
- completely abstract. This applies to the rest of their
- a living reality, there arose a number of abstractions. And
- all these abstractions lasted on as a heritage throughout the
- heritage down to the nineteenth century — abstract
- himself was entirely lost sight of among all these abstract
- of this the Romans set up a series of abstract concepts; the
- not be grasped with abstract concepts; this was the great
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- world-conception. The following rather abstract remarks about
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- see, to begin with, nothing but abstract concepts which can
- abstract intellectual concepts or to receive into himself the
- living substance of Spiritual Science. Abstract
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- abstractions. How then is one to arrive at a concrete
- dreary abstraction. but the wholly concrete “he behaves
- into abstractions because at present wherever the social
- abstractions—in that pamphlet itself I strove as far as
- being abstract is driven to its furthest extent. People have
- impressively given in abstract words. And as for the
- further consideration it all becomes very abstract because
- remain in some shadowy abstraction that you connect with the
- onetime abstract words with concrete content.
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- prevent the abstract from having any longer a value in
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- not always be pondering about abstract thoughts, but it is
- things in the more or less abstract way that I have written
- stigmatizing, this mere characterizing, this abstract
- passes unnoticed by the man of today with his abstract
- while externally and in the abstract man experiences only the
- completely abstract; and hence are not understood at all by
- nature. We must learn to penetrate through the abstract
- in the abstract that by eating sugar you strengthen your
- we can think in the abstract out of the nature of things: but
- abstract relations that man develops to the world all sound
- today man experiences in the most abstract way. He feels
- greyest, the vaguest, of abstractions. But today it is
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- life has no power of forming these abstract concepts.
- to think really in abstract concepts, a faculty which the animal certainly
- single observations afterwards forming abstract concepts by all manner
- kind of abstraction, it does not practise this activity of abstraction.
- The curious thing is, however, that the abstract concept is not lacking
- most abstract concepts which we men only form with much difficulty,
- with those abstract concepts that we have first to form. We differ from
- must first acquire, namely, the abstract concept, is just what the animal
- dogs, and he then forms the abstract concept “dog”. The
- animal in this sphere has the same abstract concept “dog”
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- animal has no need of the capacity, since it has abstract concepts to
- — that he can deal in abstractions and therefore has abstract
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- body for an abstract concept of a soul floating in
- the general and abstract. For what is most feared today by
- with their unsubstantial abstractions of God and eternity, is
- by living in abstractions men have separated themselves from
- fully living if he has no wish for merely abstract concepts.
- since the days of Goethe, the abstraction of all endeavour
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- satisfying world-outlook who is either an abstract idealist
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- matter — as, having founded an abstract Monism, many
- speak today — when an abstract monism of this kind is put
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- to make an abstraction of these things, not to apply the
- abstract concepts, and taking them for symbols. the more you
- his abstract scientific concepts; the more you open your soul
- its strongest opponents is man's desire for abstraction, his
- There are many who wish to reduce everything to abstractions.
- These quite abstract explanations, all this symbolising of an
- abstract nature is, regarded inwardly, much worse than any
- the soul's desire today to reduce everything to abstractions.
- in Spiritual Science one should rise above all this abstract
- in a direct abstract way, but with the necessary and various
- abstract way. He shows us this himself. It is perhaps because
- easier to picture an abstract, perfect Goethe and to assure
- fundamentally abstract. He considered that everything
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- for modern man who has become so abstract. They felt with
- body in Imaginations. Unless the abstract idea of Homunculus
- and above the abstract idea of Homunculus, through which it
- polarised light. That is an abstraction that says very
- conception, the abstract Homunculus-idea can become that of
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- dear friends, abstract mysticism, the ‘easy
- results but a terrible egotistical abstraction — this
- abstract mysticism is just as bad as materialism.
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- almost equally dim feeling, and an abstract thinking. Instead, he
- that was not abstract and dead, but a divine living image of God.
- abstractions. The soul has become even more tenuous. A third phase
- The soul no longer feels a kinship to it, only an abstract connection
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- and then became abstracted, exists today completely in the
- experience and raised into abstraction.
- age in which numbers had already become an abstract ads they are
- the abstract three-dimensional space-scheme is drawn up from inside
- taking place purely in abstract schemes of thought, when I find
- abstract scheme of the coordinate axes. What gives me the impression
- abstractly independent to us. But his is something that this only
- Where is the human factor if I imagine an abstract point somewhere in
- that you were doing all this, not with today's abstract
- his body and it becomes something abstract. He loses his
- abstract mathematics cannot produce anything like the ancient
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- abstracted mathematics and geometry, and therefore he penetrates
- spatial phenomena and processes of nature with abstract mathematics.
- By Newton's time mathematics has become abstracted. Man has
- from God. And in this utterly abstract form, Newton now applies
- simply applies this abstracted mathematics, this idea of space (which
- and applies his abstract mathematics to it, thus severing it from any
- when he views this abstract space, which man had formerly experienced
- be comprehended by mathematics that has been abstracted from direct
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- ejected from man. They had acquired a quite abstract, inanimate
- abstractions.
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- forth, but treated as mere abstractions. This gradually arose from
- turned into no more than an inventory of lifeless empty abstractions,
- still an experiencing of thoughts. It is not yet as abstract a matter
- reality to these abstractions. They saw thoughts as inner mirror
- only illusions. Instead of abstractions, the inner soul contents
- abstractions. Instead he experienced what occurred in him in
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- which gave man a number of abstract concepts. But a concrete
- first abstractly and philosophically for a bridge between the
- he came at first to all kinds of abstract thoughts in the
- appeared impossible to him, with the methods of abstractions
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- abstract concepts. The Divine Ordering, which should have its
- Gods there now appeared abstract, metaphysical concepts, a
- came to command and the other to obey. Abstractions appeared in
- the abstract concepts, in metaphysics. Men could now only
- it. It is not enough to speak abstractly on the evolution of
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- Those were times in which man did not say abstractly:
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- Not only had the heavens become an abstraction to man in
- means logically and abstractly, there lives in his head only the
- logical and abstract; but from that time on there existed no further
- abstract way, but in an inner living way: “You as modern man
- abstraction.” The Rosicrucian pupil felt — that is, the
- the neck, to indicate to him that the abstraction of the modern head
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- abstraction. Moreover, it is essential if the thing is to go on at all
- an abstract element to all the specific elements that
- particular economic processes, Money is the thing completely abstract.
- it again. In the first place, Money is an abstract thing, for, as we
- But the Money appears at this point not in its fully abstract nature;
- it is abstract, to begin with, if I may put it so abstract as
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- abstract; the immediate economic desire of the man attaches to it, and
- transformed into the abstract form of money. The forces of mutuality
- pictorially. No abstract concept can enable you to grasp the
- abstract concepts to ideation of an imaginative kind. Yet we can never
- To form abstract ideas would only be fruitful if we could say
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- living in abstract thoughts remains something external; man as it
- These should never be received merely abstractly, one must identify
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- who wanted to foster, not a merely formal or abstract, but a true
- age of abstract knowledge came — when men became entirely
- wrapped up in their abstract thoughts. They do not know that these
- abstract thoughts are also written in the astral light. They are
- became perceptible that that which is discovered with modern abstract
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- abstract idea however it was transmitted. Man no longer looked into
- All this afterwards became a remembrance but it grew abstract
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- If I now write them down before you they are as abstract as abcd:
- But in the age of the abstract a strange thing happened in the logic
- abstract one. It must be an impulse of the heart, it must not be dry
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- paths of ancient atavistic vision. The most accurate abstract
- processes, for you cannot make an abstract distinction between any
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- But in place of this abstract formulation, we shall have to point to
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- etheric with the physical? From the abstract point of view, we can say
- surface of man. Our task today is to pass beyond the abstract,
- the Divine in man, if they only understand by that a purely abstract
- extremely important for our time to get beyond mere abstract and
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- studied in a very abstract manner. Certainly it is not studied in such
- in the abstract the internal processes of the organ and those that
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- and this revelling in abstractions is the very thing that can then
- Title: Lecture: Curative Education: Lecture 11
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- third of the fifteenth century; namely, man's life in abstract, dead
- thoughts, which we have often mentioned. In these abstract, dead
- spiritual is conceived merely in abstract thoughts but only when it is
- Anyone who wants to cling to the spiritual only in its abstraction,
- yonder in abstract heights, in a cloud-cuckoo-land. And we
- only in its abstractness, if we cannot bring it into connection with
- sure in abstract, dead thoughts, but when man can again acquire
- otherwise abstract, merely thought-out, with what is the natural
- think, not merely abstractly, but to be able again to think so
- All our thoughts are so abstract! But no matter how remarkable they
- are, how intelligent, if they remain abstract, life will not be able
- abstractly on any day, no longer according to the constellations of
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- life: not abstract spirit on one hand and spirit-void nature on the
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- guessed. But that is the last abstract remnant of those wonderful
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- ever mean to people today. But they were basically a sum of abstract
- abstract thoughts and ideas. And yet this abstraction is what Hegel
- abstract concepts and abstract ideas.
- time. The trouble is that it consists of the most horribly abstract
- in an exceedingly abstract form. And it is preceded by the title:
- century, all knowledge was transformed into abstract concepts and
- ideas. In Central Europe one of those who began with such abstract
- that it is still rather nebulous and abstract, but a curious feeling
- still terribly abstract. He talks about three potentialities A1, A2,
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- soul in abstract terms, and does not advance to the level where this
- and will. And in the abstract way in which these things happen in our
- were being pursued there were fundamentally so abstract that they
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- intention was always a concrete and never an abstract one, because we
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- spiritual beings, not mere abstract concepts, have to be grasped if
- abstract formulae which others find incomprehensible. There is a
- transformed; an abstract formula.
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- things which are put before us in such an apparently abstract
- embrace not only our abstract and theoretical thoughts but
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- seriously it is not a question of abstractions but of looking
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- should not be an abstraction but has to be expressed in the
- mirroring in an abstract way at the moment. A very great deal
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- in the next days as abstract sentences.
- willing. And never is just a single soul-force in abstract
- the most abstract of lectures.
- abstract rules by which one learns how to speak with feeling.
- lectures should come from the heart. Even the most abstract
- abstract lecture can come from the heart.
- as there can be instructions of an abstract kind for painting
- abstract kind for lecturing. But, just as one can stimulate
- child resulting from abstract psychology, but one that rests
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- experience; the word has become abstract, so that it exempts
- language has become abstract. It is like our onward-flowing
- grammatical forms — one abstracted the logical from the
- Well, in the first place, language has become abstract. That
- logical-abstract sense, but it is a matter of saying
- abstraction, which people today still represent to
- conception that lives itself out in an abstract trivial
- things abstractly, but livingly, then the first thing into
- It is an abstraction,
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- the pace and because abstract intellectualism developed in them,
- Abstraction, the abstract
- But we have spread an abstraction, the monetary value, over
- him also in the equalizing abstractions.
- what he had become by having been placed into the abstraction of
- with intellectualism and its abstractions in all areas. What happened
- reality is something else than an abstract fact, for something with
- an abstract basis must be based on a foundation elsewhere.
- abandons himself to abstract ideas in his spiritual life, this is
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- how today's abstract market brings things together, whose
- has reduced everything into an abstract realm; that is, it
- preparation too abstractly. On the other hand, if one needs
- clumsy in thinking, he will become one who is abstract in
- that flows out of the limbs. The more abstract the languages
- Naturally, languages become abstract in the course of their
- it from within, permeate it with the obvious. Abstractly
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- his day. He spoke of the old sacerdotal culture as a system of abstract
- of scientific thought nor desirous of applying the abstract demands
- towards abstract, nebulous Spirit.
- and idolising the abstract spirituality of Neoplatonism, he is led,
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- passed away, and this worship was in no way based upon abstract ideas,
- which take place in their retorts chemists seek with their abstract reason
- important thing is the web of abstract dogmas and ideas which is spread
- Church understood how to clothe the abstract element in the ritualistic
- now manifested itself in a more abstract form. These men were cut off
- Because life in the towns was more abstract, the abstract ecclesiastical
- element developed in the towns in a more and more abstract form. Then we
- life, if somewhat abstractly and over the heads of the people, but also,
- living world-conception, although it is quite abstract, brings its
- which was half vision, became gradually clothed in abstract forms of
- evolution of humanity is in a sense necessary, and we see that the abstract
- clothes thought in abstractions. And the fifteenth, sixteenth,
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- on the other hand it is driven unawares into an abstract intellectualism,
- into a realm of abstraction where one is isolated from any true comprehension
- not abstract like our external one but full of active energy, a mathematics
- this mathematics emerges as abstraction from a condition in which it
- life, this “mathematicizing,” becomes in the end an abstraction.
- Yet our experience of it need not remain an abstraction. In our time
- experienced at some time what it is that leads from an abstract
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- universal being at one point only. We grasp it not as abstract thought
- and abstraction no longer abstraction, for at this point consciousness
- — representations that have a more concrete content than abstract
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- understanding — this man found only an abstraction to answer the
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- One gradually achieves a transformation of abstract, merely notional
- that some abstract divinity reveals itself to them when they delve down
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- to nothing but abstraction and cannot satisfy anyone who wishes to become
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- held to be nothing but abstract perception or abstract cognition. This
- and not abstract metaphysics, that we attain knowledge of the spirit
- Thoughts that formerly had floated more or less abstractly within pure
- abstractly, formally, and passively, so that inwardly, in his soul-spirit,
- rise to something more than a merely abstract science. It opens the
- Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture I
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- saying, characterizing it abstractly, that we must first know
- more in abstractions, which then are not comprehensible. In
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- principles — or abstractions generally — applied
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- spirit, not abstract spirit — begins in the pulmonary
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- abstractions, we do not at first realize that what acts from
- characterized abstractly as currents. Spiritual science is
- inner reaction. If you want an outer, abstract picture of
- Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture IX
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- on the contrary, it becomes schematic and abstract in the way
- that a drawing is abstract. But precisely this is a healthy
- Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture I
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- features that history sets itself to portray are so abstract
- Such a fact is easily uttered in this abstract form, but the
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- abstract, cold, prosaic, but is quickened to life by the
- in an utterly abstract way. This change of direction from the
- for man from this abstract process of standing up and lying
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- if we try not to explain the thing in abstractions but to
- abstraction. The unity lies in the living
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- mere abstract words, let us consider the following. I am
- Title: Ways/Architecture: Lecture V: The Creative World of Colour
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- most abstract natural laws — laws which are themselves
- based on utterly abstract mathematical principles — and
- reality which transcends all abstract mathematics or systems
- Vibrations of the most abstract substance in the ether,
- To a lover of abstractions, to one who merely gazes at the
- as abstract thought, dead knowledge or science, but as living
- many people so much abstract conception in Spiritual Science
- is in many respects superficial and abstract, and will not
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- in the next days as abstract sentences.
- willing. And never is just a single soul-force in abstract
- the most abstract of lectures.
- abstract rules by which one learns how to speak with feeling.
- lectures should come from the heart. Even the most abstract
- abstract lecture can come from the heart.
- as there can be instructions of an abstract kind for painting
- abstract kind for lecturing. But, just as one can stimulate
- child resulting from abstract psychology, but one that rests
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- experience; the word has become abstract, so that it exempts
- language has become abstract. It is like our onward-flowing
- grammatical forms — one abstracted the logical from the
- Well, in the first place, language has become abstract. That
- logical-abstract sense, but it is a matter of saying
- abstraction, which people today still represent to
- conception that lives itself out in an abstract trivial
- things abstractly, but livingly, then the first thing into
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- pedantic, theoretical, abstract, Marxist speaking one
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- how today's abstract market brings things together, whose
- has reduced everything into an abstract realm; that is, it
- preparation too abstractly. On the other hand, if one needs
- clumsy in thinking, he will become one who is abstract in
- that flows out of the limbs. The more abstract the languages
- Naturally, languages become abstract in the course of their
- it from within, permeate it with the obvious. Abstractly
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- regards what is stated here. So all abstractions are
- abstract; it is a representative of the anthroposophical
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- that it has become concentrated in the abstract ego-point or
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- at the Goetheanum’ remains an abstract term.
- once again an abstract word. I especially want to express
- such an abstract manner: ‘in the spiritual as well as
- concrete expressions rather than abstract ones. You see, I do
- an abstract expression. We are anyway, unfortunately, even in
- language on the way to abstraction.
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- emerges. So let us not proceed in an abstract way. Let us
- arrange any of these things in an abstract way and we will
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- abstract this time. We want to reckon with certain quite
- Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 17: The Envy of the Gods - The Envy of Human Beings
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- not dependent on abstract words alone; it calls for all
- Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 19: The Rebuilding of the Goetheanum
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- work in an abstract way out of the forms, and then choose the
- Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 20: On the Right Entry into the Spiritual World: The Responsibility Incumbent on Us
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- abstract ideas which human beings today attach to everything
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- that was the fact. The abstract modern view, which attributes such
- halt at externalities and abstract ideas? My dear friends, you saw
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- fact is not to be summed up in abstract, superficial phrases about a
- meetings, just abstraction; they were a classic example of life lived
- in the abstract. By Tuesday evening real chaos reigned. Everybody was
- with these two types, any abstract talk about reaching agreement was
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- abstraction learned men consider it but a real spiritual being, you
- not just in the abstract but in the community belonging that
- mere abstraction and becomes livingly reunited with man's soul and
- may not be mere theory and abstraction. We must do more than just
- anthroposophy should never remain abstract learning. Matters can, of
- without a lot of theory and abstractions and a dragging in of
- man must find his way to man,” and so on. Abstractions of this
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- Title: Problem of Death: Lecture III
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- resulting from the last abstractions of the outer physical
- abstract and dry, but which really do express it: he was an
- Title: Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
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- such a manner that it isn't an abstract theory, only a sum of
- abstract form. We can't accept spiritual science in this way.
- abstract, theoretical form, and apply it quite concretely in
- free to abstractions, feel the soul-spiritual life tightly
- one doesn't allow the continuation of abstraction, when one is
- abstraction, even a materialistic abstraction — then one must
- reality, we lull ourselves into illusions. It is an abstract
- strange because they had basically lived in strong abstractions
- examination. Certainly, so correct, so pedantically abstract as
- However, when we don't build our concepts as abstractly as we
- if we utter empty abstractions about repeated earthly lives and
- years to the love of abstraction which has made the largest
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- immediately generalize abstractly, because it concerns the
- Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 1: The Experience of Major and Minor
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- in the air, some sort of abstraction as opposed to the living reality
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- bring abstract concepts closer to the layman's understanding, making
- Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 3: Necessity and Chance in Historical Events
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- preparatory concepts, abstract counterparts, as it were, of the beautiful
- even if in the abstract form of ideas rather than in the concrete form
- of this today is the abstract remnant “regeste.” When notes
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- rest content with a mere abstract grasping of such a sentence, which
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- instead of taking an abstract approach to spiritual science, it becomes
- Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 8: Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
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- is truly not to end up with empty abstractions, vague talk about the
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- In today's intellectual age, one has an abstract concept of
- form such a concept abstractly, but in such a case it is not
- done in geometry is merely an abstraction. Human beings do
- rise into consciousness and assume abstract forms.
- — only in abstract terms. And because so little of real
- more point: intellectualism and abstractions are rampant today
- they are formulated in a theoretical and abstract way. It is
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- us, this term does not imply anything abstract, it merely
- And the thoughts of the child are not yet abstract, nor yet
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- These programs, compiled in the abstract today in many places,
- abstract kind.
- at today — more or less in an equally abstract manner as
- for school reform in the abstract. But the concrete reality is
- abstract letter forms.
- abstract. It should be evolved by degrees as part of the whole
- led prematurely into abstractions. If reading were taught a
- abstraction in the world of matter. This is not true of the
- is making it into an abstraction, of course. You will have to
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- should attend to these things, because in the abstract we
- abstractly, have a peculiar habit of never seeing the light of
- must be willing to forgo abstract aims or remote ideals, the
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- compromise I have spoken of. If I were to be asked, abstractly,
- I could only answer, again entirely in the abstract,
- differ greatly from those based on abstract theories.
- is a hodgepodge of abstractions anyway — we find a
- is only a very abstract ideal, I can only speak about it
- important than any kind of abstract argument. While
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- abstract, but as very concrete, in which gratitude becomes a
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- in contrast to how they are depicted by abstract psychological
- relatively total abstract way of thinking, as it appeared in
- can only be the highest abstractions because to reach
- abstraction can be done with a certain comfort. This way no
- converted but stay as they are and only accept abstractions
- particularly into this comfortable life of abstraction in which
- comfortable abstract criticism. So we discover already at the
- Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
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- of such things one must advance from the abstract to the concrete. One
- the most abstract thing conceivable. What do men mostly picture as space?
- — think how prosaic, cold, abstract, that all is! Three dimensions
- to say about space, — how frightfully abstract, how prosaic and
- a form of conceiving sense-phenomena. This abstraction, space, of which
- this abstraction, space, was a very different conception in the far
- different for the human soul from the prosaic abstraction that it is
- of before and behind, has terribly little to do with our abstract three
- above and below men felt the right, and left. Today we must use abstractions
- today is the abstract second dimension. The above and below, the right
- experienced the three dimensions concretely, not abstractly or geometrically
- abstraction and only a few people perceive the depth-dimension, the
- abstraction to the man of old that it is to us today. But the concrete
- That is identical with our modern abstractions of past and future.
- changed, thus has what wan once alive become abstract and dry. However
- paradoxical this may sound: modern man most certainly has an abstract
- that is still abstract in comparison with the intensive experience of
- and abstract in respect of space and time, and something else must take
- abstract line. What is the concrete? There below, the water; there above,
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- about space, even in the abstractness of the modern concept of space,
- himself, it extends over all the abstraction that one meets. One learns
- them so abstractly. We must learn so to look at our environment that
- Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture III: Romanism and Freemasonry
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- taking hold of him. And related to such an ecclesiastical truth is abstract
- idealism which believes only in abstract ideals, in morality and has
- no knowledge of how these abstract ideals arise — however fine
- spiritual influence, as well as abstract idealism, promote an increasing
- through the traditional abstract churchy element is the corpulent parson;
- traditional and abstract traditional ideas. Hence a humanity which founds
- but to Ahrimanic influences. And so we must say that the abstractly
- religious the abstractly idealistic, promotes in fact an Ahrimanic materialism,
- and the spirit-order, real bridges, not those abstract ones built by
- in the spirit-ordering. For true reality cannot be found in the abstract
- social occurrences with abstract facts of nature.
- you have abstract monistic comparisons, analogies which actually say
- through an abstract idealism and discussion of every kind of fine ideal
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- abstracto, because people are not inclined today to consider realities.
- cannot simply look abstractly at the whole man and say: he has the right
- move toward abstract ideas and materialism.
- that human beings are not simply abstract Man. The five-year-old child
- are looked at concretely, the abstraction Man-Man-Man has no reality
- and abstract thoughts, concepts, the mere hulls are left, so that one
- of Golgotha, when it would be abstract and unfruitful. The Mystery of
- over from gnostic ideas and reduced to abstractions, mere husks of concepts.The
- the Greeks. Thus the Greek wisdom, even though reduced to abstract concepts,
- that sense. Aristotle was already involved in abstract concepts and
- are abstract. Scotus Erigena indicates very beautifully four stages of a
- Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 4: Contrasting Principles of Ancient and Modern Initiation
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- Do not try to form too abstract
- and then to have nothing but the abstract idea is not worth much; it
- to as result. When these things are changed today into abstract concepts,
- influence, and so on, they are nothing but abstract ideas. In those
- are nothing but abstractions. If you acquaint yourselves a little with
- reality. They reach natural laws, but these remain abstract concepts,
- abstract ideas. Such an individual as Goethe tried to push beyond natural
- is an idea.” Schiller stayed with the abstraction. Whereupon Goethe
- Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 5: The Change in the Human Soul Constitution
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- is nothing but abstract superstition originating in that Church Council
- centuries to completely abstract dogmas, which were not intended to
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- increasingly abstract ideas of the so-called cultured world —
- and a few abstractions such as the Trinity abstraction and
- similar ones. These were culled from abstract forms, from the ancient
- to this description in very abstract form. (I spoke about the concept
- of initiation are imitated, but only in abstract symbols, and they no
- Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 7: Experiences of the Old Year and Outlook over the New Year (part 1)
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- increasingly young in soul — not abstractedly as often happens,
- the abstract idealists who talk of all kinds of beautiful things, of
- to give you an abstract description; I would rather give you one taken
- Who is grasped, however, in an abstract form.
- between peoples. In the abstract concept of a hundred billion we find
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- the great man, is he not? — a man who thinks fourteen abstract
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- with when those people were still in diapers. In the abstract, getting
- the place. It is extremely easy to set down in abstract terms what we
- it, is seen as something that is too abstract and ought to assume a
- Title: Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
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- not on a program of abstract and therefore unreal points, but on something
- Title: Community Life: Lecture 5: Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer
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- afraid most people here on the physical plane are of the cold and abstract
- cold and abstract world of thoughts, and people do everything possible
- feel about the abstract world of thoughts.
- the physical plane are of so-called abstraction.
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- by the most highly developed and abstract spirituality of a certain
- which I have explained to you, does not give any abstract resume and
- Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 2: What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take
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- apply to any State, Such a definition is the very pattern of abstraction.
- of men now suffers under such abstract unrealities. For people hardly
- Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 3: Emancipation of the Economic Process
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- connections of cause and effect, But if this abstract connection of
- if we base a sequence of events upon this one-sided, abstract foundation,
- understood in a spiritual-scientific manner. Meaningless abstractions
- has on the one hand this terribly abstract moral-spiritual life, which
- enclose spiritual-scientific truths within their own abstract limits
- Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 4: Three Conditions Which Determine Man's Position
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- class practical life that, in the most extensive sense, this abstract
- a certain predilection for purely abstract thinking. This love of abstract
- abstract life of the spirit nothing wells up which in itself van be
- arises this striving after the abstract life of spirit preferred by
- shall find everywhere this urge towards abstraction. And what effect
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- thus in the middle ages, for in spite of all their abstractions, the
- abstract thinking arisen in modern historical evolution? It is because
- the abstract, and there is a real struggle to attain to such abstraction.
- all experience has been eliminated. And that is indeed so. Such abstractions
- to a stage beyond these abstractions, then the soul rises into the spiritual
- present-day mankind, to get beyond the abstract to the spiritual life,
- merely abstractions, abstract thoughts, in which he can find no reality.
- into the difference between all the prevalent ruling abstractions and
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- have had in Himself only ideas of the most external abstractions. What
- His divine reasoning as to think only in such abstractions! Nevertheless
- for Hegel the sum of these abstract ideas is God Himself, not merely
- The essential thing is that Hegel in reality never gets beyond abstract
- ideas, but looks upon these abstractions as divine.
- and so forth. Hegel makes up for the significance lost through his abstractions,
- logic, the embodiment of abstract ideas. Those ideas existing before
- in man the idea is contemplating itself. Abstraction contemplates abstraction.
- be imagined than these thoughts about human abstraction, if one bears
- in mind that this ingenuity is in the sphere of abstraction. And one
- in its extremest form of abstraction! It is of very great importance
- only one who grasps the abstract idea who grasps reality; there is no
- higher reality than the abstract idea.
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- is itself supersensible, even though abstractly supersensible. This
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- into abstract concepts. However, the Roman world was actually
- the world of the senses. Those were more or less the abstract
- united with them. The legend has actually become quite abstract
- that which was becoming increasingly abstract in the life of ideas.
- nowhere would we ever find an abstract definition. It is
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- wholly thin and abstract without living content of being —
- with what had formerly been present. And this process of abstraction
- continued. Abstraction increasingly became a quality of concepts and
- abstract concepts and ideas were not his strong point. Goethe did not
- unable to express in abstract concepts what is found at a spiritual
- Schiller philosophized without the degree of abstraction that
- his own way in the form of abstract thought, and he what he had to
- can say that Schiller lived in an abstract spirituality, but that at
- abstract point of view, for he too had arrived at the intellectualism
- processes of abstract reasoning. But he, too, was concerned with the
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- aware more or less that we have abstractions. The essentials
- abstracting and forming the concepts and say, the concepts are
- Talking about abstract concepts did not make sense to a
- abstractions be? Concepts cannot be abstract, cannot be
- ideas are abstractions. This is the expression of an
- called with the abstract term “being,” the world of
- ideas was something that he called with the abstraction of
- abstraction “life” or also with the concept
- from himself. He must bear the spiritual as an abstraction. If
- our individuality, concepts which are abstracted from the
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- views abstractly. Thus, we recognise in the Aristotelian system
- brought down that by abstractions what the others had in
- where the more or less abstract, but experienced things are,
- matter that he calls angels. These are not mere abstractions
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- things do not want to be considered only in the abstract as one
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- Thomas could state only in the abstract
- of the human organs. In abstract form, Thomas Aquinas expressed
- way that Thomism had in mind in abstract form that said there,
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- conceptions, a pile of abstract conceptions.
- never in fact gets further than abstract thoughts and abstract
- abstract concepts and abstract ideas.
- made up of the most horribly abstract concepts. It is composed
- given there, put together in the form of abstract ideas, as
- abstraction. At the beginning stands: Outline of
- abstract concepts and ideas; so that finally, as we saw, one of
- world-outlook in the abstract concepts: Real Being; Nothing;
- Everything in this modern age has turned to abstract concepts
- of the first in Central Europe, who began with these abstract
- abstract ideas. Then, after a few years, Schelling no longer
- found any satisfaction in these abstract ideas, — plunged
- less abstracted and more substantial. No one can be said to
- say to yourself: ‘It's all quite hazy still, and abstract; and
- This, too, is still fearfully abstract, He speaks of three
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- thinking was terribly abstract! — What in particular
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- move on in time. But at this stage you must not abstractly pursue the
- into these abstractions. But that was necessary. I wanted to show you
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- responsible for a number of writings — has all the abstraction
- abstractions with tremendous depth of emotion but also with utmost
- something of the same heart-quality in handling abstract concepts. As
- natural philosopher, it was entirely abstract, but all the time there
- abstract thoughts, into the soul-world. And he, in his turn,
- truths have become abstract words. I was often fighting against
- him. There was still a great deal of inner substance in his abstract
- concepts, but, like the man just described, he was an abstract
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- we find many who are seeking for the Christ in an abstract sense. The
- Mysteries. We must connect the physical events not merely abstractly
- soul and spirit — not a knowledge rooted in abstract ideas
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- I tried indeed to take hold of those abstractions of the philosophers with
- however abstract conceptions, there did appear something that contained
- abstractions with enthusiasm and energy of will. He is an
- description of the most abstract concepts. And yet with these most
- abstract concepts he could achieve such a thing, for instance, as his
- other such abstractions and inspires the people of Jena with these
- however abstract a form, important inspirations and suggestions for what
- him, in spite of the abstract form. Thus at a comparatively early age I
- abstract concepts. I had the very greatest regard for him, and yet, when
- abstractly written, but in which one may clearly recognise something
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- abstract ideals of Truth, Beauty, Goodness. But remember what I have
- Beings of the Hierarchies and not merely to abstract ideals of Truth,
- present human activities we simply follow after abstract ideals. From
- but a search for abstractions. Moral ideals, national-economic
- abstractions compared with the living knowledge which Spiritual
- compare this with the abstract moral ideals set up elsewhere, you
- will find the difference between what is living and what is abstract
- abstract ideals. Thoughts — what are thoughts? As if thoughts
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- with such an abstraction, for matters can only be grasped when one
- into all sorts of greyish abstractions, abstractions like elan
- that stoops to mysticism. These abstractions say nothing; they simply
- a more abstract time, however. Today we need to add the spiritual
- Schiller, we see that the abstractions of Schiller's letters on
- there they are described in metaphysical abstractions. The way vital
- put more in abstract, rather ghostly concepts, because that was how it
- an abstraction in the way the tree trunk is an abstraction. It is an
- abstraction, not a reality, even though it is lying there before you.
- their powers of abstraction, thinking up new abstractions. More, and
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- of thinking, one has also learned to think abstractly has
- become accustomed to abstract thinking and has become fond of it. To
- resulting emancipation of abstract thinking has led to the formation
- abstractions; they never arrive at a concrete picture. Some details
- fashion one is stuck with an abstract concept of creativity. All the
- thinking remains stuck at the level of abstractions. And yet it is an
- materialism. One arrives at something higher, but only as an abstract
- conclusions. But the whole attempt remains stuck in abstractions. It
- attempt to capture reality by applying abstractions to a more or less
- is behind them; he only shows us some abstractions. These are supposed
- reality. Once emancipated from reality, it proceeds in abstractions.
- living reality by means of the usual abstract thinking nor with the
- our body. These things are beyond the reach of abstract thinking and
- has developed a tendency towards abstractions and an ability to work
- with abstractions, for this has made man a stranger to reality.
- oneself from reality and lives in abstractions, the way back to
- come to the abstract judgement that Nietzsche arrived at his entire
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- such as the great abstract ideals of Truth, Beauty, Goodness. But
- the spiritual world who correspond to the abstract ideals of beauty,
- the higher hierarchies not merely toward the abstract ideals
- less abstract ideals in our deeds and activities. In order to raise
- all this is really a search for abstractions! All these moral ideals
- ideals these are all abstractions. Just compare these abstract
- that is just abstract and dead, and having something that is alive,
- will be apparent if you compare this with the abstract moral idealism
- all kinds of ideals which are nothing but abstractions. No, there is a
- they will continue to formulate abstract ideals just thoughts
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- we must above all not confuse logic with abstract freedom from
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- appear as abstractions. Now these things must again take on a
- abstract guise. They were incorrectly named by Kant, and
- the same words are taken abstractly by modern man and were
- has all become abstract, and it is of abstract ideas that
- abstract theology, and virtue also as something abstract
- — the more abstract it is, the better people like it. And
- another way of describing the abstract terms in which such
- and immortality, the words are given an abstract sense, but in
- mere abstract speculation. For their own part, they look for
- something much more concrete behind these abstract formulae,
- materialistic colouring; if the abstract ideas of God, virtue
- me now speak abstractly and radically, of course without
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- being at one with all souls, which an abstract philosophy
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- Very abstract
- outside and in an abstract and formal way — it is true
- effect is based entirely on abstraction. It is only possible
- whole; an abstract way of looking at life always links up one
- these thoughts today they may seem abstract. This is indeed
- so. But they are not abstract thoughts and they should not
- abstract appearance they were only apparently abstract. They
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- abstraction; indeed, the greatest abstraction.
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- looked upon in an abstract way, or in general; they must be
- real way the bridge to the dead, not merely in an abstract
- way, or in an abstract faith. In our age there is a great
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- of James I, or again as the antithesis of the abstraction of
- abstract and impersonal. The bourgeois becomes a rationalist
- and thinks of God in general and abstract terms. This is the
- (insoluble not to the abstract intellect, but insoluble in
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- political force in the 1840's were exceedingly abstract. You
- mankind were totally abstract, sometimes merely empty words!
- Consciousness Soul one had to go through the abstractive
- in this abstract form.
- albeit in an abstract form, began to take root and mankind
- (which were certainly abstract, yet lucid despite their
- abstract nature), and the ‘lofty human ideals’, as they were
- liberalism, though abstract, were such that they tended to
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- abstraction. Man is a complex being and in order to
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- not hold fast abstractly to the one-fold man,
- real insight. It remains as empty abstraction if you say:
- enhance the love of humanity. For the abstract love of
- abstractly considered — and we come now to a different
- abstract thinker would take it as a matter of course that the
- abstract definition, abstract thinking, and realistic
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- like. That is the characteristic of abstract
- their abstract formulae. It is a very different matter when
- is adapted to them. With an abstract idea you can no doubt
- in abstract terms; we should try to express them so that they
- who love abstractions. This too, my dear friends, is new in
- reality. You can prove anything you like with abstractions;
- with an abstraction, be it even of a God, you can declare as
- of God! With your abstractions you can include the black and
- the white under the same abstraction. With your abstractions
- such abstract life and abstract talk — ruinous as it is
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- abstract precepts, customs, dogmas about the spiritual world.
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- abstraction! We should not fail to distinguish ourselves from
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- and matter, whereby spirit is treated in the abstract, and has no
- spirit is not the true spirit, but a human abstraction; and worship
- an abstract spiritual kingdom, he does not find the spirit at all,
- the Holy Spirit and all kinds of things — in abstract forms.
- abstract views about them. The others speak of a nature devoid of
- taught, because in our abstract spiritual view we speak of every sort
- have such a living thought that it is not abstract, but follows the
- say, when I did not merely pursue abstract things in thought, like a
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- quality: hence the Gothic forms also produce an abstract-mathematical
- We should say in modern speech, which has become abstract: here would
- abstract concepts does not really understand them; but they can be
- But “Know thou thyself” not in some abstract way; “Know
- “That art thou.” But now, not an abstract definition of
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- confined to the abstract, legalistic form, because there was no
- has flowed into our life, but this has now become utterly abstract, a
- abstract has lost all impulsive force. We have no choice but to place
- to become abstract; but externally it influenced human customs, human
- West: namely, to rise on all occasions to ultimate abstractions. What
- the Germans have in their spiritual life is called “abstractions”
- abstractions. This was shown in their political life, in their most
- the talent for abstraction demonstrated in Woodrow Wilson is the
- ultimate talent for abstraction in the political field. Those
- originate in a mind wholly formed for the abstract, with no
- Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture One
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- abstract. In olden times, through atavistic clairvoyance man knew much
- more than an abstract network of knowledge of the world.
- abstract three dimensions of space. Astronomy reckons with the
- abstract three dimensions of space; it distinguishes one dimension, a
- abstractions which began in the middle of the fifteenth century, Man
- conceive of an astronomical cosmogony in the present abstract way. He
- The three dimensions have really become so abstract for man that he
- three dimensions of space in an abstract way, be obliged to calculate
- abstractly, according to dimensions, I shall find it is sometimes on
- than a last remnant of external abstraction when it speaks of the
- thing is taken into consideration for the Universe — abstract
- bare abstractions? Man does not investigate himself thoroughly enough.
- as we live in abstractions, we cannot build a bridge between Moral and
- simply stating their distances in abstract numbers we have said
- highest of the animals, that is to say an abstraction — because
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- and the stars, is made quite abstract.
- The question is important: How do we manage to obtain abstract space
- plane to any abstract direction, but would at most, if it could think
- we men able to think in abstract thoughts. Were it impossible for our
- think in the abstract.
- of any abstract conceptions! Above all, we could not conceive of
- three-dimensional space as abstract, but would strictly differentiate
- one, that abstractions have become possible. All abstract thinking,
- has contracted the world-movements into the abstraction of the three
- otherwise abstract dimensions of space. We shall come back to these
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- time when the tendency to make everything abstract was at its height.
- that contain something more than mere abstract ideas. It is not a
- a picture in quite external abstractions. That of course is not what
- the strong tendency to abstraction, which may so easily lead to
- one another; it is only the faculty of mental abstraction in the head
- which makes these three dimensions abstract and does not distinguish
- in a purely abstract way. The point at issue can be made clearer if
- The conception of the world which, in its abstract thinking, gave rise
- Sun. Instead of drawing abstract lines, we should look into the human
- abstract dimensions of space are only there to enable us to follow up
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- uttermost abstractions. It speaks of a force of gravitation. The Sun,
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- to its abstractions! It becomes more and more abstract, the spiritual
- of modern times are mere abstractions, for they are described without
- within himself. The abstract mystic says: “Look within to find
- the reality of the outer world.” But this is merely abstract
- our being. That is why abstract mysticism yields so little fruit, and
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- its zenith. Abstraction is deeply rooted in our ordinary conception of
- This kind of discussion concerning an extreme abstraction, can be
- abstraction, and that materialism has produced a state of complete
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- is merely an abstract assertion, for I have often emphasised that as
- This complicates the abstract idea we gain in the first place of the
- speech, which is often in danger of becoming too abstract, by gestures
- adroit. This has nothing to do with having an abstract conception of
- Waldorf School, for it is not a question of writing sundry abstract
- the nature of man, not in the abstract, but as possessing a concrete
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- Will and Idea for instance — all remain in the abstract.
- as it were, in the mere abstract. So also does Eduard von Hartmann.
- They all remain in the abstract. To be concrete is to observe how,
- so on. They make abstract theories and hold on to them; although they
- are materialists they remain rooted in the abstract. That is why such
- of abstract geometry, man had applied concrete geometry to celestial
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- could not be done today. Abstraction has gone so far that natural
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- abstract, that evolution is bound continually to ascend. We find this
- with their abstract knowledge do not bring what they explain as Light
- abstract concepts; and the two world-streams flow on side by side
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- of study is such that we look up into abstraction, we have our
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- is stunted to a merely abstract intellectual acknowledgment as,
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- world and only talks abstractions, and that this man now
- skeleton-like, haggard, slinking round our abstract
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- abstract intellectuality of our planet would be perfected
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- that in its place a more abstract orientation towards the
- orientation towards the world in an abstract sense to find
- experienced today in comprehending the world through abstract
- can now experience through the conceptual, abstract grasp of
- this abstract comprehension. Yet, at the same time, we
- arrived at abstraction. Thus, at precisely the
- abstractions — I can express these matters only in a
- comprehension of language and the abstract element. I have
- abstraction through Aristotelianism — which still was
- abstract concepts and has therefore attained to full
- orientation towards abstract concepts, ideas, and a feeling,
- to abstraction and attained from it subjective logic. In
- is utterly filtered into an abstract thought concept. The
- vitality. But people traced it back in an abstract form, and
- this return in an abstract form was even dogmatized. At the
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- represented merely an abstract teaching of the spirit. In the
- wisdom. Such old folk wisdom was by no means as abstract as
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- how conceptually abstract the ideas were the Romans
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- up into abstraction. These Greek ideas still originated from
- by the sea — definitely had a quite abstract
- more abstract mode of thought, characterizing the later
- was engrossed in a body of abstract, fantastic wisdom that,
- scholarliness, found their way only slowly into the abstract
- Mont Salvat. Through the clouds of abstraction and narrations
- had fallen victim to abstract thinking, the old etheric
- astronomy, too, had passed over into abstract thought.
- period in time, this whole trend of abstract thinking had
- abstract intellectual wisdom prevailed. Among the Christians,
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- capable of carrying inner devotion into its abstractions by
- in juristic, Romanized, abstract form. This is what then
- abstract spirituality, a sublimated, filtered
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- somewhat different in the case of numbers. In the abstract
- The unit of number is a completely abstract concept
- people or stars, we are led into total abstraction, into
- oversee. We enter into a complete abstraction when we say
- than an abstraction.
- signifies counting them off abstractly one after the other;
- is simply a third element, abstractly speaking, but by
- abstractly counted off, are nine:
- something different. Certainly, due to our customary abstract
- abstractly add one unit to another. Then we feel that this is
- can say that, outwardly, counting is something quite abstract
- and five on the other! This would then correspond to abstract
- abstract numbers out of the quite concrete concept of the
- things abstractly, we say that the second column is twice as
- however, is a very abstract conception. Picturing it
- refer to something abstract today when we speak of
- do not deal with an abstract process here but with something
- unit of measure in the abstract sense as we do otherwise.
- itself into abstract measuring. This was actually not the
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- abstract form to penetrate the doctrines with its thinking.
- and weight then turned into abstractions. With these
- abstractions, people then established in the fifth
- way to comprehend them. By means of the abstractions of
- arrived at abstract concepts instead of a living
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- appear all at once in the most extreme abstraction. We see
- We see how the abstraction, which is fully justified in this
- in abstract forms. Unlike in England, the old existing
- Roman-juristic tradition was corroded by abstraction, driven
- asunder by abstraction.
- Revolution demanded based on abstraction and the shadowlike
- abstraction. Therefore, the demands that were being made
- quite clearly defined in abstraction, has not been clarified
- Abstract reasoning had struggled up to a certain level during
- abstract concepts of freedom, equality, and brotherhood
- observe in an almost tangible way the effects of abstraction.
- Such abstraction can certainly be charming, as is definitely
- Europe did absorb something of abstract revolutionary ideas.
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- it though in abstractions, the appeal addressed to the
- Romanism, these abstractions of freedom, equality, and
- evolution, which has assumed abstract character and flows
- namely, as the arising in abstract form of what is supposed
- the abstract impulses of freedom, equality, and brotherhood
- no, that is not the case. With ordinary, abstract logic, with
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- for Imagination. If they remain with abstract conception,
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- vaguely and abstractly, of something divine. They must begin
- That is the abstract way of describing it. The description is
- not suffice today to set down in abstract formulas the need
- about all abstract theosophists who appear on the scene and
- place abstractions before people, for example: Thoughts will
- abstractions of physics into a region where the creative
- together the human being logically in abstract thoughts.
- young people are taught in so wretchedly abstract a form in
- looking up to an abstract divine principle; they must
- abstract pursuit. It implies opening doors to cosmic
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- abstract ideas but angels, archangels, and so forth. He
- understand, but now had to have the support of abstract
- in all things. But then, the spirit was abstractly lifted up
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- reflect on how poor, how abstractly poor this thing is that
- causes their interplay. They did not have in mind an abstract
- glance in a more abstract, spiritual direction. They only
- very much alive, became abstract sciences. By contrast, the
- thought of it after Euclid's time. The abstract triangle was
- logical, abstract parts of their teachings. People were
- People increasingly found their way into a sort of abstract
- and more. Everything became abstract soul experiences, a
- entirely abstract. It became so abstract that a person like
- replaced. A purely abstract state of mind, directed more
- chemistry teaches today in the way of abstract elements.
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- centuries — according to which the abstract,
- spiritual reality. We have an abstract spiritual
- civilization. Materialism is an abstract spiritual
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- of remembering very abstract thoughts, let us say, then the
- as merely abstract truths but will be beheld concretely, as
- abstractions: that these things arise through being pressed
- need not confine ourselves to the general, abstract statement
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- we do not merely work with abstract concepts but rather bring
- to receive from abstractions the pictorial quality of
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- abstract form of consciousness with which modern man is
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- freedom through the fact that we can raise the abstract
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- him. Out of the abstractions of intellectualism, he arrived
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- one with abstract mental images — what is that like?
- Abstract mental images retain almost nothing of the
- abstract, faded thoughts to a departed person, he cannot have
- only abstract, pallid, intellectual thinking. Our pictorial
- merely with abstract thoughts, now becomes for him after
- Already, however, he is abstracting in his perception. Warmth
- abstractly here on earth. He experiences this light by
- little. Only if you think and imagine quite abstractly, quite
- away, and which has passed over into complete abstraction
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- deathlike character of abstract thinking. I need only remind you of the
- Heraclitus, rises to abstract notions of being and becoming. Here, he
- the abstract thinking of later times is veritably a corpse. Nietzsche
- humanity, soared into the realm of abstract thoughts.
- grasp, and abstract thinking had not yet begun. A substitute was
- the mummy and began, for the first time, to develop abstract, dead
- to work their way through to dead, abstract concepts. The Egyptians
- thoughts are purely abstract and intellectualistic. We must feel that
- before them. We must not further mummify the corpse of abstract
- soul, to our abstract, systematized concepts. That is the task before
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- Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture I: The Spirit-Seed of Man's Physical Organism
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- part of an abstract mechanism. This, however, is a world of
- Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VII: Inner Processes in the Human Organism
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- looks at the world abstractly, with the forces of his head, but
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- turned into an abstract conception. Men no longer looked inward and
- All this, then, became a memory, but it also became abstract ...
- fixed as Easter Sunday. This is an abstract way of determining the
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- abstraction gives us the whole of
- — When I write them down for you they are just as abstract as
- In our age of abstractions something peculiar happened to logic,
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- experiences, they did retain an abstract recollection of them.
- became abstract. “The moon must be full.” Dimly, no
- Easter's date is thus an abstract vestige of what was once a
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- abstract letters, properly combined, can give you all of
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- which must not be allowed to remain abstract or
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- Instead, we are left with but an abstract conception of it. A
- abstract. They felt something must come to them with the full
- is therefore an abstract computation of time, and has endured
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- abstract as a b c d e:
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- Title: Occult Movement: Lecture One: Seership and Thinking
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- Title: History of Art: Lecture X: Disputa of Raphael - the School of Athens
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- nothing other than an abstract image of nature will be found,
- Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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- which I have spoken, the transference of abstracted cosmic
- completely abstract; this was the prevailing teaching. Art — in
- themselves, the social structure in the sense of abstract
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- abstract metaphysics, that brings the spiritual to our notice,
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- formal abstract way, so that he has the same experience inwardly
- something more than a merely abstract science. It opens the way
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- thought. There was no such thing as “abstract, logical
- fact that they never get away from their abstract thinking. It is
- retained a certain abstract spirituality but it has assumed, so to
- how the myriad nature-spirits work. The abstract, Jehovah-influence
- abstract thinking. This abstract, Jehovistic medicine fits in with
- “Folk-Spirit” is not merely an abstract term. When
- Europe — a pure abstraction; the traits and qualities of the
- he comes out with an abstraction: “Concept of
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- abstract spiritual force. All this is expressed in the figures of
- This one thing remains: — this element of abstract allegory
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- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture I: Man as Microcosm
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- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IV: Butterfly and Plant
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- again he can bring artistic movement into abstract thoughts.
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Ethers and Plants
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- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IX: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Various Activities and Attitudes
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- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture X: The Origin of the Different Systems of Man: Metabolism, Rhythmic, Nerve
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- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XII: Convention and Morals, Bones and Hatred
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- When man speaks of the spiritual today he refers at most to abstract
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- Title: Lecture: Man's Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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- things for which mere abstractions exist to-day, it will be important
- abstract, materialistic age? As a number of people who speak the same
- abstract concept, which has nothing to do with the nation's real and
- to an abstract concept, but to an actual Being, when we speak of a
- like. We cannot generalize, for this would lead us to abstractions.
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- emphasizing the principle of nationality abstractly This abstract
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- those which approach, one might say, the most abstract Mathematics,
- transcends the abstract-mathematical, or anything that is similar to
- the abstract-mathematical. And so it is not surprising if our time has
- abstract-theosophical concepts, at the most it would be an allegory of
- Vibrations of the most abstract kind in the material of the ether,
- inwardly becomes. For a lover of the abstract, who stares at the colour
- not as abstract thoughts, not as lifeless knowledge, nor as science,
- between what or many is still today abstract idea in the content of
- superficial, abstract culture, which does not allow what is being done
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- those abstract demonic ones, of which the psychoanalyst speaks.
- — all words for abstractions, but nothing about
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- them into abstract demons, not realities, by saying that it is
- abstract demons, mere thought demons that could never make a
- Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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- abstract lack of contradiction. An abstract lack of contradiction
- Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XII: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 3
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- was necessary that certain things appear first in abstract form and
- entered human life, are essentially abstract. Kant has named them
- exactly the same as what modern man views more abstractly but that
- time. These things have become simply abstract, and modern humanity
- speaks from abstract ideas. They have wished to understand God
- through abstract theology; virtue is also regarded as something
- purely abstract. The more abstract the idea, the better modern
- only another form of expression for abstract thinking in which such
- or freedom, and immortality are also talked about in an abstract way.
- of this is only speculation, that these are all abstractions. For
- themselves, they seek what is being striven for in the abstract
- one makes the abstract ideas of God, virtue, and immortality into
- I will now speak abstractly and radically — I will
- Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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- but simply appearance. Such an abstraction is of little account. It
- So it is alleged by external, abstract science which takes account of
- part taught as abstractions today. Nothing much is accomplished by
- truth. Such abstractions do not carry us far, because in the form in
- a primeval wisdom that did not hover in abstractions but teemed with
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- an abstraction is of little account. It has meaning only when
- alleged by external, abstract science which takes account of
- things for the most part taught as abstractions to-day.
- abstractions do not carry us far, because in the form in
- in abstractions but teemed with concrete realities which
- Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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- are turning ever so far away from mere abstract intelligence, but this
- deepest impulses of the social question. For the abstract League of
- Nations will not solve the international problem. Such abstractions do
- Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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- At the outset, this seems an abstract fact. But for the spiritual
- researcher this is not an abstract fact. You know that we can trace
- Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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- brilliancy, and darkness, obscurity. The abstractions in which we live
- future age of mankind, to speak in abstractions about the spiritual,
- withdrawing to the abstract. But what is necessary is the following:
- in the future we must cease to differentiate abstractly between the
- respect; then we shall not have abstract matter and abstract spirit,
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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- without in any way teaching abstract anthroposophy the
- anthroposophy need not remain an abstract, remote philosophy,
- it is designated by an abstract name: materialism, idealism,
- sound logic, but it is abstract, and spiritual science has to
- for today's abstract world-view must be replaced by something
- every abstract form of mysticism bears this out. What today
- consciousness, believing, in their one-sided, abstract
- progress in evolution. On the one hand, we have abstract
- ethically abstract. When it is a matter of
- from external abstraction to reality. I want to give you a
- what they repeat so abstractly. Otherwise, they would ask,
- abstract ideas. Everything that lives in the external
- number of people under the umbrella of an abstract program.
- No abstractions exist in the spiritual world above, only
- beings. Yet, political parties are rooted in abstraction.
- abstract down here is being above that is, the abstract below
- threshold, abstract categories, logical approval or
- abstractions or merely of what one may think, but that we
- to take that serious step that leads from abstraction to
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture II: Materialism, Party Line
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- general, abstract truth, which people claim to embrace, the
- abstract party program. A number of demands are raised; they
- an abstract idea which they hope can be realized, that is
- the higher worlds beyond the threshold, no abstractions
- exist, no abstract demands exist as posed in party programs.
- group around an abstract idea, only around this or that
- abstract idea and to yearn for the realization of abstract
- abstract programs can only exist in the physical world and
- that something that can be grasped in abstract ideas can only
- were derived by outlining abstract ideas. It would have ill
- them, to present their people with something like an abstract
- souls an abstract party program, not an awareness of being
- leaders in the party affairs have only abstract ideas in
- abstract formulations. He is shown through exercises how to
- at abstraction and must find its way out of it. We are deeply
- enmeshed in abstraction, particularly in regard to the
- functions. We must shed this abstract nature if the recent
- shedding the proclivity for abstraction we enter deeply into
- favorite pastime of our age of abstraction. Spiritual science
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- Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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- and spirit. That world appears most abstract to present-day
- abstract moral or religious ideals that have also become
- increasingly abstract conceptions. Yet, in regard to both
- the organic life and is described in abstract forms merely
- abstractions our modern, amateurish psychology speaks of. For
- is an abstract set of words. People lack insight into the
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture V: Forming Sound Judgment
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- abstraction. The new initiation science, on the other hand,
- again from the merely abstract and logical to reality, when
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- for destruction, with a new abstract formula, with new
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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- people are only too prone to look only for the abstract
- abstract, theoretical structure of ideas that is simply laid
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII: East, Middle, West
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- nevertheless abstract level, these discourses were continued
- stood on the highest levels of abstract philosophical
- utterances, couched in thin abstractions, concern themselves
- out of intense feeling than something abstract, what Jacob
- person calls the uttermost abstraction. He begins by
- would be called a sum of abstract ideas.
- abstract concepts. To experience Hegel's
- this sum of apparent abstractions, these icy, cold concepts,
- have created from this sum of pure abstractions the entire
- ordinary consciousness would also still call an abstraction.
- namely, the abstract logic that we need for our inner
- abstractness, so that it may not live in the Ahrimanic
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- point where we apprehend nature with abstract concepts. We
- longer talk here abstractly and in general of man's having a
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIV: The Connection of the Members of Man with the Kingdoms of Nature, the Necessity of the Threefold Order
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- abstract sense. Three people who get together really know
- construct something in abstractions. Then it becomes law. It
- knows that rules can be this good in an abstract
- (referring to the smaller form). In abstractions, everything
- nothing but abstractions. These can be quite wonderful and
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVI: Changes in the Meaning of Speech, -or- Dreams and Human Development
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- abstract principles in an abstract pedagogical sense. What
- abstract rules. The purpose of aesthetics is not that of
- curriculums, and such like in an abstract manner. What
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- grasp these abstract
- there is no temptation to introduce those abstractions which so
- ourselves the abstract ideal of unifying religion, art and science;
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- man still leans towards such abstractions. Spiritual Science must
- see only its abstractness. When you go out and look at the trees in
- longer merely in its abstractness, but as light, that we regard the
- will no longer merely in its abstractness, but as darkness, in its
- purely abstract to the concrete. We are no longer such dried-up,
- abstract thought to the rhythm of the world. And in darkness we see
- abstract into the concrete. World-pictures rise before us instead of
- mere thoughts or abstract will-impulses.
- only in an abstract or religious-abstract world the causes of good and
- Title: Colour: Part Two: The Connection of the Natural with the Moral-Psychical. Living in Light and Weight.
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- made their language abstract. However, we can actually do something about
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- it were sketched; abstract, as a drawing is abstract. That is precisely
- Title: Colour: Part One: Colour-Experience (Erlebnis)
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- dividing it abstractly, taking the greenness from the plant, it is
- Title: Colour: Part One: The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours
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- raised from the abstract to the concrete in Art, and this is
- Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture V: Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man
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- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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- abstract way many people already speak about all kinds of polarities
- abstract as that in which they discuss polarities in inorganic
- an abstract way, that the Middle Ages were luciferic and more recent
- times ahrimanic, what matters is that this abstract truth bears no
- abstract sense something that is in reality no more than an empty
- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Two: East, Weat, and Center, -or- Asiatic Spiritual Life
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- ideas and abstractions. These ideas, these abstractions, are most
- adequately expressed in the spirituality of abstractness and ideas.
- of those of abstract ideas. There exists a radical contrast between
- bringing proof without having to base it on abstract, logical
- foundations, a people for whom proofs based on mere abstract logic
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- abstract. Yet right into the fourth century AD it was still something
- retained but given an abstract nature — which in reality ought
- becomes a world of abstractions, of logical concepts, of abstract
- ideas. Human beings have lived in this world of abstract ideas since
- the fifteenth century. And with this world of abstract ideas, which
- further developing all these abstract things human beings will ascend
- characterize the attitude brought by external, abstract culture
- pointing towards the new, developed the abstract, prosaic sober
- abstract way common today. We should imagine it in the image of this
- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Six: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 1
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- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eight: The Passage of the Human Soul and Spirit through the Physical Sense-Organization
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- been present in human evolution. This abstract inner consciousness
- that of the Greek world — abstract concepts as we know them
- live mainly the abstract thoughts (see next diagram, red) which are
- the two great polar opposites: the world of abstraction foreshadowed
- human evolution with Christianity. The abstract thinker — and
- Philo of Alexandria is perhaps the abstract thinker of the greatest
- genius, since he foreshadowed in an ahrimanic way the abstractness of
- later ages — the abstract thinker wants to fathom the mysteries
- of the world by means of some abstract thought or other which is
- Anthroposophy wants to open the gate. But because abstraction has
- sought has disappeared. Until abstraction took hold, human beings did
- feeling that the Greeks sensed not only the abstract laws of nature,
- Old Testament is imageless. In a way it is abstract. But setting
- discern behind this abstract aspect, Jahve, the ruler who fills this
- abstraction with a supersensibly focused, idealized, generalized
- evolution: Roman culture. Being abstract, Roman culture could only
- comprehend the abstract, as it were foreshadowing in an ahrimanic way
- pervades the whole world. This was not then as abstract as it is now,
- Ages, which strove to remain in abstract concepts and capture the
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- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Ten: The Threefold Human, Four Elements, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eleven: Faust and Hamlet in Relation to the Turning Point of the 15th Century
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- abstraction is the language of these sciences — makes demands
- abstract concepts. That is why I say that it is not necessary to make
- with the spiritual world. Abstract concepts such as
- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Twelve: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, the Spiritual Struggle of Schiller and Goethe
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- living exclusively in abstract thoughts? For obviously the soul's
- is forced to contemplate, with the help of abstract thoughts alone,
- abstraction, felt obliged during the same period to bring into his
- abstract. Goethe greatly approved of the thought, but at the same
- expressing these things in the form of abstract concepts. Instead,
- abstract concepts altogether. He felt bound to move away from
- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Thirteen: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, -or- The Search for the Spirit
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- Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VII
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- so abstractly. Things were felt, they were sensed subconsciously. But
- the age of abstractions, everything takes on a different appearance.
- interrelationships do not become clear through abstract concepts; they
- abstractly, they might with pleasure recognize their present life as the
- Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture III
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- became aware of his feeling, it was not the abstract feeling of which
- we speak today in our abstract time, but rather the concrete feeling
- in the Vedas and, more abstractly, in the Edda. These are after-images
- what is called today, abstractly,
- and dualism, he does so with a neutral mind, marshaling abstract concepts
- Abstract thoughts
- are the ultimate abstraction, the corpse of the spirit world. What is
- Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VI
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- Title: Lecture IV: The Sun-Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science
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- reveal to him, the Druid priest did not receive the mere abstract
- outcome was no abstract knowledge, but something that worked in him
- them, not in the abstract way, as we today having an earthly
- caught up, as it were, in the cromlechs is drawn in abstract lines,
- a strangely abstract way, very intellectually, describing abstractly
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- Title: Lecture VI: The WHITSUNTIDE Festival: Its place in the study of Karma
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- Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture II: Oswald Spengler - I
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- abstract, intellectualistic spirituality — as opposed to
- excessively abstract and intellectualistic mode of thought. The
- grasped at first in its abstractness, leads to utter
- thinking — appropriate in its abstractness to the mineral
- because to him thinking remains only an abstraction, and on
- thinking only in its abstractness, and he sets to work on
- Oswald Spengler that the man of today with his abstract
- not abstract, but is sound common sense, the word
- consciously, then the leap is made from abstract thinking to
- fact that abstract thinking has become airy, and also light,
- Certainly when anyone thinks in such an abstract way, he simply
- purely abstract thinking that has nothing whatever to do with
- Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture III: Oswald Spengler - II
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- in abstract thoughts, but they need the thorough inner warming
- Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture II: The Social Structure in Ancient Greece and Rome
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- abstract in Romanism. I have mentioned this here before. The
- largely out of abstract concepts. What has remained as our
- natural-scientific mode of thought which is based on abstract
- imaginations. The present abstraction of concepts exists only
- abstract concepts we are so proud of today and that we
- present in man the impulse to proceed from abstract knowledge
- and abstract, then one is called upon inwardly to experience
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- be clever differently from the way they, in their abstract
- need. No abstract concepts can grasp this human need in its
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- various parts of the world according to abstract notions, but
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- not such that we simply draw abstract conclusions, but there
- mere abstractions to realities, if we reflect, then, when a
- satisfied with the mere abstraction, the unthinking
- abstraction, of the payment of money, but he will ask
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- abstract thinking is, of course, the brain. This brain is
- The capacity of the human being to form abstractions is
- was likewise the people of the abstraction process. For this
- process of abstract thinking. This is the secret of the Old
- to the abstracting capacity, the capacity of abstract
- thinking. Jehovah wisdom is adapted to abstract thinking.
- his people in that abstract law that regulated and harmonized
- with Jehovah wisdom, which leads only to abstraction. That to
- forms. The Jewish people had its abstractions, not myths, but
- abstractions: the Law. This has continued its existence. This
- regulated only as regards a single people in abstractions,
- mere abstract laws. They must come again by way of their
- our abstract concepts. The truth is that we do nothing more
- abstract concepts. In the intercourse of man with man we have
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- something he believes can be overcome by his abstract means,
- to reality. This illusory element is based upon the abstract
- abstract character of Trotsky's way of conceiving things
- something brilliant in a merely abstract way of thinking when
- Middle Countries. It is not possible by means of abstract
- actually work in this way. Abstractions do not suffice.
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- Title: Roman Catholicism: Lecture II
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- Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture III: The Transition from Ordinary Knowledge to the Science of Initiation
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- standpoint of a nebulous mysticism, or in terms of abstract ideas,
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- derive our education from abstract principles; we shall have to
- Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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- Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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- close to the border of understanding abstract thought free from
- through sense-observations which through abstraction we bring
- more or less conscious that we have abstractions, something we
- things, make them into abstractions and concepts and say:
- of experience. That one should speak of abstract concepts
- — that has no meaning for a Plotinist; for such abstract
- do you mean — abstract concepts? Concepts surely cannot
- be abstract: they cannot hang in the air, they must be
- abstractions, is therefore wrong. This is the expression of an
- something which he defined with the abstract term
- abstract concept “knowing,” and Psyche with the
- abstract concept “living,” or even
- spiritual as an abstraction. When he sees lions and thereupon
- appeared; in the most extreme abstractions, but such as were
- this abstract form, in this inner-heartedness they appeared in
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- Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture II: The Essence of Thomism
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- Aristotle has brought down to abstract conceptions something
- senses up to that border where are the more or less abstract
- which he calls angels. These are not just abstractions, they
- above abstract concepts there was up there a revelation of
- those abstract concepts. And the question faced them: What
- reality have, then, these abstract concepts? Now Albertus as
- Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture III: Thomism in the Present Day
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- These things should not be looked at so purely abstractly, as
- faith-content, but for an abstract one: Freedom, Immortality,
- Thomas could get no further than the abstract affirmation that
- way make real the thing that appeared dimly in abstract form to
- an abstract form, by rekindling itself from Goethe continues to
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- Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture I: A Christmas Lecture
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- of the Magi from the East, has become abstract. It has gone the
- withdrew inwards, into the human being, and became abstract
- mathematics, abstract mechanics or phoronomy — the
- mathematical view of the world we have the abstract legacies of
- spirit-filled vision of the heavens has become abstract mathematics
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- in pure abstraction over the cosmos. The picture of the human
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- naked concepts. What lived in it was a body of abstractions. We can
- see this already in Philo. And one can see abstractions in the ideas
- of the real Gnostics, too, but their teachings were abstractions of a
- but as an abstraction from the sense-world. What for Aristotle was a
- gift from the world above, was now taken to be an abstraction from the
- B.C. Aristotle's compilation of abstract logic was the first milestone
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- world. Only we must not thereby remain in the abstract, but must enter
- what shows itself later in more abstract intellectual form as the
- saying this we are saying something very abstract. It is really only
- centuries allowed itself to become entangled in certain abstractions,
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- abstracting, making thin his inner soul experiences.
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- I have said indicate? It indicates that man through his abstract
- see at first the mere imaged abstract concepts that are
- abstract concepts, or to take up the vitalising content of
- spiritual science. If he stays with the intellectual abstract
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- abstract idea. The ego has now become a kind of cosmic, or at
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- today, could be achieved only by the fact that abstract
- Abstract thinking, the only kind known today, is obtained by
- physical body. In other words, this abstract thinking
- experience in abstract thinking is an illusory experience just
- thinking. The epoch in which abstract thinking arose also
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- and more abstract.
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- Gradually they had become unsubstantial and abstract, and
- abstract cosmology.
- becoming merely a sum of abstract ideas and
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- the life in theosophical abstractions! This life in theosophical
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