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- Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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- not the abstract mechanical thing it has become for modern humanity.
- supposedly taught in the Mysteries. Actually, in their purely abstract
- we hold of them with our present-day abstract, theoretical grasp of
- abstract to us, revealed at that time something really living, because
- has become abstract in our mathematics. But the very same forces out
- mathematical abstraction; and in like manner the inner must be widened
- Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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- body, astral body, Ego, and so on, is really very abstract. For this
- knows about himself becomes more and more abstract. But behind
- this abstract life there is a being living more and more within
- abstractions “Karma”, or “universal Justice”,
- (who have been rendered abstract as Monads and then have disappeared
- Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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- abstract intellectualism of Theology. It was a force that worked upon
- actual life any concrete expression of their abstract beliefs. They
- We live in a world of pure abstractions when we study merely the
- the abstract they may understand quite well. All the same, it
- not essential for children to get hold of the abstract idea of
- idea in the abstract, it is quite possible to throw light on history
- abstract even when they dabble in the most concrete phenomena of
- but abstractions when their spiritual foundations are ignored.
- abstractions to a concrete understanding of the truths themselves.
- Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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- just to talk round the subject in the abstract, I will speak of one
- Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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- innermost nature, than are the abstract truths current in the world
- on the Earth must be able to develop love not only for an abstract,
- sake of any philosophical content. The abstract nature of the
- essence. The abstract results of these investigations, to be found in
- abstract thinking. To use a figure of speech employed,
- abstractions — into abstractions such as gave rise, for
- neck and the head can only express in abstract concepts what it
- abstract concepts, these husks of words and ideas, finds their way to
- man of abstractions. As I have said, it is not the same to possess a
- complete humanity over the Earth. An abstraction is set up and is
- Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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- so interrelated as with our abstract ideas we often think they are. No,
- Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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- necessary to say — not in dry, abstract words but
- Title: Memory and Love
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- not a question of knowing something in a purely abstract way, or —
- has become a pale, almost abstract shadow. That is what our capacity for
- recollection is — pale and abstract compared with the full vigour
- Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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- spiritual science is not concerned to speak in general, abstract phrases
- Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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- has nothing whatever in it of that peculiar abstract,
- abstract theories, than to consent to examine actual
- ‘actual abstraction,’ that spreads through our
- much these will bring in. Just like abstract principles,
- abstractified money extends over every conceivable thing. It
- the actual Real Abstraction, just as general
- principles are abstract; and, like them, it can be applied to
- every sort of thing. And this abstract money, emancipated
- meant by it always is something purely abstract, which figures as
- soars aloft into abstract, mystical heights, and that sort of
- for, so long as he gets his money; money is abstract in
- trains people's minds to abstractness. Spiritual Science has
- after. Take this quintessence of abstraction; that
- money became an abstraction in the course of the
- abstraction: Look and see, how many paper-notes the
- atmosphere is. In considering this abstractionising of the
- For this whole course of human evolution the abstractionising
- the time, when this kind of abstraction reached its proper
- limit. I may rightly say ‘abstraction,’ for the function of
- process in abstracting.
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- Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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- as already have appeared as an abstract of the Roots of the
- life of modern civilisation, to that of abstract conceptions
- abstractly, without regard to the conditions of actual
- are the abstractionists! What is wanted in reality, is to look
- he translates everything at once into abstractions, and
- everything into lofty abstractions. A man who
- translates everything into lofty abstractions, — and that is
- understanding of realities. Abstractions of this kind you can
- hear today on any Sunday from any pulpit. Abstractions of
- substanceless abstraction is, that flies away to its airy
- are not for the purpose of carrying us aloft into abstract
- Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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- reality, it really loves the abstract and theoretical. When
- Lamprecht. The abstract minds of the present time are
- best thing about history is not its abstract laws but the
- Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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- an abstract way and does not teach us how to take the Spirit
- Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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- to us in abstractions, which do not touch the substantial
- abstract idea of the journey. The travellers' inner knowledge
- experience, and not merely the abstract experiences which are
- do not look upon mysticism in an external, abstract way, but
- The abstract mystic may talk from the age of 25 years, right
- abstract way — when we see continually in a man, a corpse
- abstract like the Copernican-Newtonian world conception, but
- abstract image of this concrete, spiritual space, in
- adult; the concepts become more abstract, the experiences
- undergoes concrete transformation. Then that abstract
- great deal of abstract talking today about the ages or
- cannot be thought out by abstract concepts of the intellect
- Title: The Ten Commandments
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- when he announced the laws, if we only think abstractly about
- Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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- remarkable way: the seer does not see an abstract script; everything
- Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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- “why?” We should answer such questions not with abstract
- Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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- but for them these laws of nature were not merely abstract, nor were
- Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- abstraction. There is reality for him only where centric forces and
- Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- — We have to consider man, not in the abstract manner of today,
- the phoronomical domain, we are amid the beloved abstractions of our
- wave-movements or corpuscular emissions, all in the abstract. By
- Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- distinctly how abstract everything is made in our conventional
- Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- realistically and not so abstractly as in modern science. Please now
- Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- splitting up the given totality, the v, into two abstract
- abstractions. We dismember, what is really one, into two
- abstractions. Because there is a velocity, there is a distance moved
- as v, are no realities at all, they are abstractions which
- the two abstractions into which — if you like to put it so
- Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- abstract the one light patch from all the rest that is there. Mostly
- abstractly confined. If therefore I repeat Newton's experiment
- notion of a merely abstract space to the kind of space that is not
- abstract but is in some specific way positively filled with light or
- real abstraction; you may not call it a reality by itself.
- the bony system, abstracted from Nature as a whole. It is impossible
- abstraction. From this abstraction however present-day Physics has
- arisen. This Physics is an outcome of abstraction; it thinks that
- what it has abstracted is the real thing, and on this assumption sets
- proceed very abstractly we may argue: “We perceive sound
- Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- what is given you in modern Physics, abstracted as it is from all
- very far removed from the abstraction commonly presented.
- Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- divide the velocity into two abstractions, in these abstractions I
- have no realities; I only have what is abstracted, separated out
- my researches. These I abstract from the totality; what is
- put them neatly side by side, and — for a further abstraction
- itself, it is in truth an abstraction. I must go on to the totality
- larynx on the other, is an abstraction; you have no real totality
- Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- somehow find a single, abstract, unitary principle at the
- discover kinships which were to prove at last that some abstract,
- Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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- in the same abstract way as in the old wave-theory.
- Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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- abstract concepts, which do not offer anything pertaining to
- Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
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- are, and not about an abstract self, that we are nothing more
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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- They are very different things. Only meaningless abstractions result
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture II
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- the abstract, for no one loves abstractions more than the Philistine.
- He wishes to explain everything by a few formulae, a few abstract
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture III
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- an actual triangle in bridge construction or elsewhere, the abstract
- idea verifies itself. What I have thought of in the abstract
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IV
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- Even when we speak the very abstract word Sein (being), the
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture V
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- abstractions which make up the sum of our pure arithmetical and
- soul life has to change. With ordinary abstract thoughts man cannot
- element in order to get them into abstract form, if they are to be
- only able to think abstractly. For the attempt must be made to get
- the abstract form. The reason for this is that when we think
- abstractly, when we move within the narrow confines of concepts, in
- imagination, then the abstract ideas must be completely altered,
- abstract thing, will be relatively powerless in the face of nature. He
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VII
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- concepts of the physical as will lead you out of the mere abstract.
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VIII
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- abstract method of modern 19th century physics through and
- mobile as impossible, but it is not impossible because of the abstract
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XII
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- an abstract unity of all energy which makes it into a mechanical
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XIII
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- is possible to abstract something from contemporary physical phenomena
- also shows the same madness to the belief that what can be abstracted
- Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XIV
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- body. But the thing we must strive for is not to form abstract
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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- which I prefer to describe through facts rather than by abstract
- undone by abstract writings. Anyone who has a heart within him and
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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- phosphorus and so on became a mere name, an abstraction. The Spirit
- continued as an abstraction in tradition, until, at the end of the
- logical, abstract thinking, but even living thinking. You must not
- confine itself to the unreal, abstract concepts he loves — for
- this Father loves the most abstract concepts. Just read any Catholic
- Beauty and so on — all in the most abstract form. Whatever you
- the inclination not for abstract speaking, but for inward action in
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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- abstract questions to be answered in an abstract way, but that the
- knowledge which is not an abstract indication of how man consists of
- of religion the abstract instruction which leads away from real life.
- has passed through the epoch of abstraction; now, however, we must
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VII
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- power of pictorial expression for what appear abstract things, there
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VIII
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- him it was a matter of course that he experienced his abstract
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IX
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- understood in those days, and it was not the dry, abstract stuff of
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture X
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- arts what today has become entirely abstract and scientific, namely,
- have been seeking now for will at its abstract pole where it is
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XI
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- consciousness soul the most abstract elements come consciously to
- is held fast today in the abstract ideas of the head. But there lives
- is as abstract as an adult's. When we drink milk we taste it on
- what is abstract and scientific, he experiences nothing of your soul.
- intellectual concepts, in abstractions. Today even the farmer loves
- abstractions. How could it be otherwise, for he indulges in the most
- abstract reading — the village newspaper and much else besides!
- Our riches consist really in abstractions. And therefore we must free
- darkness impenetrable to the world of abstract concepts. But if, with
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XII
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- consider soul and spirit in the abstract way that we do today, with a
- Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XIII
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- penetrating way. Mankind has worked itself up to the most abstract
- humanity molded what was experienced inwardly into abstract concepts.
- abstractly moral divine order. But the dragon does not tolerate this;
- Title: Lecture: The Proclamations to the Magi and the Shepherds
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- the world of stars was not the machinelike abstraction it has now come
- Mysteries were secret and veiled. In their abstract content however,
- The modern mind with its tendency to abstraction and theory and its
- universe which to us has become pure abstraction, then revealed
- inward; it has become our abstract, mathematical science by which
- birth. In our mathematics this has become pure abstraction. But the
- abstraction. Therefore what is now inward must be expanded into
- Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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- industry, of economics; if we separate, abstract from these our
- institutions is a dry barren abstraction, devoid of life, was then
- connection. We pursue today an abstract science. We find no longer a
- connection between this abstract science and external life. The stream
- abstraction without meaning for those whose lives are cast in it. From
- the feudal origin of our abstract science and knowledge shows itself
- for the future. Men wanted especially to put an end to the abstract
- Spirit has been watered down so that it lives in us as an abstraction;
- abstract life of reason has endeavoured to permeate itself with a
- reached the most utter abstraction, it can no longer keep within the
- Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture II: The Michael Path to Christ: A Christmas Lecture
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- proceed in the abstract, but enter into things in the concrete, we
- Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture III: The Mystery of the Human Will
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- as thought reduced to abstraction, goes back to the Mysteries of the
- of abstract thinking in Man. And because men cling so firmly today
- to this abstract thinking, they are working in the way most favourable
- continue to live an abstract life, steeping himself in abstractions,
- these theories, knowledge gained by means of experience is abstract,
- Ahriman that man should keep up the love of abstraction, so it is in
- of the Gospels as by abstract thinking.
- Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture IV: The Breaking-in of Spiritual Revelations Since the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century. Thoughts on New Years Eve.
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- abstract, we may consider this comparison with a mirror as I have just
- clairvoyance is abstract reflection, the abstract power of cognition
- question, not an indefinite abstract question, but as a concrete
- Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture V: The Dogma of Revelation and the Dogma of Experience. The Spiritual Mark of the Present Time. A New Year Contemplation.
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- single person can be satisfied. Taken in the abstract, no
- can be justified in the abstract.
- paths of abstraction in the Spiritual life. And for this we must first
- and phrases about spirit and soul, there the talk is mere abstraction.
- with man's abstract logical power. He calls them the basic needs
- Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture II
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- it is really an abstract method of classification to speak of
- people think that it is all an abstraction. This is not so. In
- Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture II
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- may say that it is really an abstraction to speak of physical,
- an abstract classification, that we take the functions of the
- think that it is all an abstraction. Now that is not so. In the
- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas III: The Michael Inspiration
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- an abstract manner of speaking, such as is applied to external,
- logical, abstract speech we employ to express merely natural truths.
- must always pass over into art, since with abstract concepts one
- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas Va: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (Part I)
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- separate Beings of the Hierarchy of the Archangels; not abstractly by
- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas Vb: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (Part II)
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- Let us grasp in a certain metaphysical abstraction what actually took
- let us now choose a more abstract point of view, but one which, if we
- If such ideas are at first abstract, it is for us to change them into
- described in an abstract way will become a concern of the evolution of
- An abstract understanding always deals in names, simply in names, and
- concrete experience of what is so often abstractly called Divine
- Title: Threefold Order: Part II: Lecture: The Impulse Towards the Threefold Order
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- of stereotyped theories, party definitions or merely abstract
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture I: Introduction - Aphoristic remarks on Artistic Activity, Arithmetic, Reading, and Writing
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- the connection between the abstract letter-forms and the images
- in abstracto. We must teach art in
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture II: On Language - the Oneness of man with the Universe
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- saved from the abstraction of going by what stands in the
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture III: On the Plastically Formative Arts, Music, and Poetry
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- everything to unity in an abstract way, if you wish to be true
- and not through human abstract organization. Only imagine what
- our naivety if we fashion things concretely, not abstractedly.
- that abstract element present in nature as a process of dying.
- we do an abstract, a dead thing, something untrue to nature,
- abstraction. We ought to produce already in the growing child a
- quite wise gradually to pass from the purely abstract art which
- when he sees how, for instance, abstractions are on the point
- of inventing an abstraction we can say that man discloses his
- to the content of a poem, to its abstract treatment.
- horrible — the abstract explanation of poems. This
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture IV: The First School-lesson - Manual Skill, Drawing and Painting - the Beginnings of Language-teaching
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- to-day's speaking has become very abstract. But I should like
- example, the name which already sounds so abstract to us to-day
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture V: Writing and Reading - Spelling
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- another, you bring the child on, never by mere abstract teaching,
- writing. They do abstractly what we are attempting to do
- are given an abstract kind of writing, people lose much of the
- not try to teach spelling from some abstraction, for instance
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VI: On the Rhythm of Life and Rhythmical Repetition in Teaching
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- abstract form of meaning in such a way that he does not, it is
- more abstract things this method can be followed. You teach,
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VII: The Teaching in the Ninth Year - Natural History - the Animal Kingdom
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- abstractly: “How are we to develop the child's latent
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VIII: Education After the Twelfth - History - Physics
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- abstractions too early. That will be particularly important in
- your class with the abstract lever. Start with the lever of a
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture X: Arranging the Lesson up to the Fourteenth Year
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- The printed letters have become extraordinarily abstract. They
- letter. In this way you overcome the abstract character of
- and that is: you keep him from forming abstract thoughts in
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XI: On the Teaching of Geography
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- The soul undergoes a change in doing these things. Abstract
- are a very abstract matter.
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XII: How to Connect School with Practical Life
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- too sentimental and abstract. That is why people have become so
- point of view of abstract didactic method, but because they are
- Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XIII: On Drawing up the Time-table
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- the most appalling abstractness, that is, senility. And
- up to speak. He began to read off his very tedious abstract
- noun. We shall flounder fairly badly in an abstraction when we
- And it is far better to flounder in abstractions over it
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture I
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- their thought and feeling, we are often asked an abstract question
- conducted. There are many people to-day who take things abstractly,
- abstractions we can continue for ever asking: Why? We can go on
- always find an end, but abstract thought goes on running round like a
- is not something that we should have before us as an abstraction, and
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture II
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- We look at things, then we make them abstract, and thus we get
- You must not introduce too many abstract concepts into what you bring
- Concepts, abstract concepts, are abstractions; they go through memory
- abstractions in teaching a child, you involve him too intensely in the
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture III
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- of such an abstract law as that of the conservation of energy.
- true. All that we have in abstract science we owe to the faculty of
- forms a triangle, an abstract triangle nowhere to be found in
- philosophic abstract form. And in particular, if you read the final
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture IV
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- so it is not enough to say in the abstract that the will must be
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture V
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- the eye, the ear, the nose, etc., all in one great abstraction as
- abstractions. For here we stand upon a sure foundation; we proceed
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture VII
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- concepts and ideas sound theoretical, abstract, scientific. It is an
- reality and not out of abstract conceptions, they find it
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture VIII
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- from unity: if we were only to recognise an abstract unity then we
- Hence people who want to grasp everything in terms of abstract unities
- Title: Study of Man: Lecture X
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- also, but in a somewhat abstract way. Hence, when you look at Egyptian
- Title: Anthroposophy Science: Lecture I
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- experienced mathematically as pale abstractions can be made
- abstraction, but something inwardly, spiritually concrete? In
- outer world or an abstract mathematical picture, but we would
- from mathematically abstract pictures. We would have lifted
- mathematical, pictorially-abstract elements. We use this
- our mathematical abstract thinking. Therefore I believe that
- Title: Anthroposophy Science: Lecture II
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- height dimension has already become abstract. Only in the
- how reality becomes an abstraction in the human organization
- becomes an abstraction, appearing as a mere line, a mere
- width become abstraction. We can no longer experience them;
- dimensions abstractly. It is only the depth dimension for
- perception should become equally abstract? Then we would be
- left with just three abstract lines — and it would
- represented by those abstract lines.
- abstractly, is experienced in its reality in our
- made into an abstraction, with only a small remainder in the
- abstractions of mathematical-geometrical space.
- abstract level — where, for example, Kant regards space
- Title: Anthroposophy Science: Lecture IV
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- experience our intellect creating not only abstract pictures
- Title: Anthroposophy Science: Lecture V
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- a whole, if we are not satisfied with abstraction but want to
- more abstract way, when we take something we are carrying in
- Title: Anthroposophy Science: Lecture VI
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- — expressed abstractly — it then leads a further
- above rather abstractly, is in fact what is spun into an
- Title: Anthroposophy Science: Lecture VII
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- spiritually real and concrete and avoiding abstraction), we
- outer events from the point of view of some abstract element
- abstracted from outer circumstances.
- Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture I
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- words it uses are not meant as abstract theory. Anthroposophical
- Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture II
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- about. They did not think in abstractions such as come so naturally
- But these abstract
- think in abstractions they were not free, self-determined souls. One
- mankind evolved to the level of abstract thinking, on the other to
- capacity for abstract thoughts, and so to freedom. The humanity
- incarnated on the earth in earlier periods was incapable of abstract
- capacity for pure (that is, abstract) thinking. Abstract thoughts
- leave us cold. But the moral capacity given us by abstract thought
- situation before abstract thought with its accompaniment of freedom
- only after death, that is, a short looking back in abstract thoughts
- abstraction and freedom that presently extends into earthly life was
- freedom and abstraction! But how richly saturated with artistic
- experience and a capacity for abstraction is something that comes to
- spiritual realms. Our freedom and capacity for abstraction come to us
- Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture III
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- of abstract thinking in its new aliveness. To understand ordinary
- Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VI
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- grey theories or abstract thoughts, should be the source on which we
- built with abstract words, the usual kind of sermon, and the meagre
- abstract thought, but that endows the ideal with a higher life as we
- has the same attitude. It is not enough to have a deep abstract
- of will to a spiritual purpose, avoiding the pitfall of the abstract,
- not rest content with abstract spiritual concepts and a capacity to
- Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VII
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- logic, the logic of reality, is quite a different thing than abstract
- Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 5: From Sense Perception to Spirit Imaging
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- is not to be found in the abstract ideas formed in our ordinary logical
- that does not, in the first place, appear in the form of abstract intellectual
- Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 6: From Imaginative Knowledge to Inspirational Knowledge
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- abstract; it is a pale notion to our everyday consciousness and we do
- abstract, disembodied thing, comes close to being concrete and graphic.
- it is in its abstract form, in ordinary consciousness. This also is
- between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ out of the abstract
- one encourages life, the other kills it. The abstract notion of ‘right’
- Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 7: The Gulf Between a Causal Explanation of Nature and the Moral World Order
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- abstract concepts we use. No, they are connected as something real.
- not have the support of external perception. We shall end up with abstractions
- Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 8: The Social Question
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- speculations out of some kind of abstract thinking about a ‘vital
- then ascending into an abstract spiritual sphere, into ‘cloud-cuckoo-land,’
- around things in mere words, for it leads to abstract notions of the
- then a unity has arisen, joining what in abstract terms is seen as spirit
- in theory, in abstract concepts, becomes living experience within free
- so, for it is something abstract, something that leads away from art
- rather than into it. Spiritual science does not lead to such abstract
- of this yesterday — but here men are unable to get beyond abstract
- results an abstract intellect gathers like wilting leaves from the outer
- Title: Natural Science; the Anthroposophical Movement
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- somewhere in abstract heights, but living within the existence
- abstract science which has developed over the last three to
- Title: Preparing for a New Birth
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- are completely abstract. Most scientific thoughts are abstract;
- Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 1: Prelude to the Threefold Commonwealth
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- unhealthiness those abstract, so-called immortal, ideals
- Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 2: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question I
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- abstract science, even abstract philosophy, talks —
- naturally — always in abstractions. They talk about
- materialistic than the abstract philosophers themselves
- future. That is so if one speaks abstractly and one can
- the dead cannot be carried on in abstractions — any
- the dead, but not abstract thoughts. Because this is so
- something quite abstract.
- brings men more and more to abstractions, that it takes
- Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 3: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question II
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- raise what is otherwise dead abstract science to actual
- by it, just as in abstract mysticism and in much abstract
- they have fallen in love with abstractions. They
- love is, in this age, for mere abstractions. For that
- abstraction-necessity, a mere thought-necessity, to fact.
- From mere abstract knowledge to an experiencing of fact.
- there was even a much more abstract thinker in Zurich,
- between a logic of mere abstract thoughts and a logic of
- knows that no system of abstract logical
- not merely become abstract knowledge but, become an inner
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Lecture II: Establishment of Mutual Relations Between the Living and the So-called Dead
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- Title: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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- Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture III
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- Title: Occult History: Lecture 1
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- more wisdom and truth are to be found than in the abstract erudition
- we study animals, plants and minerals, what we learn is merely abstract
- Title: Occult History: Lecture 2
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- the influence of abstract ideas in the events of history. Many people
- approach, to speak of certain ideas, abstract ideas which properly speaking
- history. A last semblance, at least, of belief in the influence of abstract
- precisely because they are abstract ideas! — was still in evidence
- not an abstract onflow of ideas but an actual and real onflow of the
- Title: Occult History: Lecture 4
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- reduced inevitably to abstract measures taken from something deal. For
- it is obvious that measure to-day is abstract in comparison with the
- has sailed into abstraction even in respect of calculation and counting,
- is the nature of this materialistic current to make everything abstract.
- The whole decimal system is an abstract system. This is not criticism
- into abstraction, and concrete reality, which pressed on again to the
- an abstract system of measure and number is naturally the appropriate
- Title: Occult History: Lecture 6
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- In his concepts, in his ideas, however abstract, an echo can still be
- ordinary way is, at its best, only an empty abstract of ideas. What
- Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture IV
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- done at the Christmas Meeting. There was no mention of abstract
- of the Society is not conditioned by abstractions usually known as
- forms and constitutes it. Thus we have tried to replace abstractions
- abstractions but of living reality, a spirit which wants to speak not
- Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture V
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- about these intimate esoteric truths. If one wishes to avoid abstract
- as Woodrow Wilson, who carried Arabist abstraction in its most
- Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VI
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- Title: Deeper Education: Lecture I: Gymnast, Rhetorician, Professor: A Living Synthesis
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- [das Geistige], not the dead and abstract
- in a dead, abstract way.
- only has thinking gradually become more and more abstract, but
- Title: Deeper Education: Lecture II: Forces Leading to Health and Illness in Education
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- Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VIII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2
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- cannot be characterised in the abstract, you experience
- Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VI
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- told you yesterday, however, one must forego concepts; abstract
- world; the piano, however, in which the tones are abstractly lined up
- Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VIII: The Interaction of Breathing and Blood-Circulation
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- stand as abstract as can be in well-worn conceptual forms over
- generate super-sensible abstractions in a Cloudcuckooland, but
- a science of abstractions that is cut off from reality and inwardly
- artistically. A dead, abstract science can indeed be grounded on
- Title: Lecture I: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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- circles. Imaginations are much more alive than abstract
- a Sun ritual, which, however, was not a mere abstraction, not even the
- abstraction we see in devotion and reverence. Without undervaluing
- Now these Imaginations are much more alive than ordinary abstract
- comes from Imaginations and not from abstract concepts. Anyone who
- with those terribly abstract signs which constitute our writing, but
- way in which they appear to our abstract thought of later days. If we
- observed more abstractly in his idea of metamorphosis. The Druid saw
- abstract laws as today, but of living elemental beings. Different
- had no idea of what we experience as abstract thoughts. All their
- sleep and the abstract ideas of our waking life, so they alternated
- Title: Lecture II: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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- more with living pictures than with abstract concepts; and we find
- Title: Lecture III: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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- predominantly in more or less abstract ideas or at the best in shadowy
- abstract reflection of some reality; in our dreams we see the weaving
- closer to us than is our normal abstract thinking; they show the way
- how far their interpretation, based on present-day abstract thought,
- abstract thinking, our present-day chaotic dreams will be dulled, and
- present-day form of abstract logical thinking. But then a
- abstract thinking. Yet this is not something we can arbitrarily add or
- but spiritual experience. Ever since we have been victims of abstract
- Title: The Three Fundamental Forces in Education: Lecture
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- the up-building of the organism. All the abstract discussions
- supplement is necessary. What is spoken rather abstractly
- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time.
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- abstraction, but something like a spiritual cloud, which in its turn
- it was not merely an abstract truth to them, it was a truth in which
- incarnation. But we are a people today who live in abstractions, and
- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom. Temple sleep. Isis and the Madonna. Past stages of Evolution. The bestowing of the Ego. Future Powers.
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- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature. Group-egos. The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
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- persons is entirely abstract, but for those who are able to see into
- abstraction. It is not so to the occult observer. To him the whole
- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of the substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynami's, and Exusiai. Jehovah and the Elohim, and their co-operative activity in the stages of human Development.
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- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies. The earth's mission.
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- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The progress of man. His conquest of the physical plane in the post-Atlantean civilizations. The beginning and up-building of the 'I am.' The chosen people.
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- a people who were able to seek God in an abstract way, as a Spiritual
- Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The reversing of Egyptian remembrance into material forms by way of Arabism. The harmonizing of Egyptian remembrance. The Christian impulse of power in Rosicrucianism.
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- the sun in a much more comprehensive way; however abstract they may
- the teaching regarding numbers. This was not merely abstract
- the harmony of numbers. Mathematics, which is only something abstract
- Abstract thought could never have entered the world without a further
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture I
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- often extremely abstract, must die out, and quite new
- world that becomes more and more abstract, less and less
- abstract mathematical science, or an abstract science of
- mathematician — though in a purely abstract element
- sure, it is still a rather abstract way. There is the cell.
- express myself abstractly to begin with, think of the sphere
- utmost abstraction. It is reality to say: We must strive for
- abstraction. The mathematician, the mechanist, calculates the
- living in pure abstractions.
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- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture III
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- an abstraction of our earthly world is dealt with in Geology
- plant, animal and man and have in mind the mere abstraction
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IV
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- describing thus abstractly has, however, become a historical
- abstraction from reality; to what extent it related to the
- more abstract pictures that have been reached. I should have
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VI
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- are no mere convenient generalizations or abstractions from
- it in the convenient abstraction, ‘lamb’ or
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VII
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- proneness to the quantitative, abstracting from the
- abstraction which is doing no little harm in scientific life,
- or — as has since been said, rather more abstractly
- more be highly abstract. All that emerges, in the last
- thought-picture, an abstraction? After all, it might well be
- neither Euclidean, nor any abstractly conceived space of
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IX
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- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture X
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- abstract Euclidean plane. I must look upon it as a surface
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XIII
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- in the highest degree abstracted and complicated. Copernicus
- It represents a return, from the ideas now abstractly
- this was lost and the high tide of abstraction came. Today we
- further abstractions. For Newton put abstractions in the
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XV
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- point abstractly. In the realm of reality it will not. We
- abstract point. In every instance we must ask whether the
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVI
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- method: Not to define phenomena by means of abstract
- instead of making abstract concepts to explain them. Nor does
- Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVIII
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- never have to do with space in the abstract where real
- Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture II
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- in the abstract but concretely, countless points of view are revealed
- not in abstract ones; otherwise, where space is concerned, we shall
- for everyone; for abstract thinking of that kind is the ruin of all
- grief when people believe that one kind of abstract ideal can be set up
- Title: Introductory Words to the First of Four Educational Lectures
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- proceed from life and that it cannot proceed from abstract
- should never proceed from the abstract, but always from the
- abstract litter, really abstract chaff, and he does not notice
- abstract principles of education, for it was said that we
- comprehended in abstract principles, which can be represented
- than out of any abstract principles. If when we are in our
- depend on the working out of abstract principles, but rather
- Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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- philosophies were in reality but abstractions inspired by the wisdom of the
- Universalia post rem: these essential forms abstracted from the things and
- abstraction in the eyes of those for whom only the world of sensible
- purely abstract concepts. This was never their intention. [
- A mere reference to the abstract logical element in their philosophy falls
- arid since they cannot but regard the concept as something merely abstract,
- abstract thought; the experience of spiritual realities is achieved.
- thought; not such thought as accompanies sense-perception with abstract
- Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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- from life and cannot issue from abstract scientific thinking.
- in teaching, one should never proceed from the abstract, but always from
- abstractions, really nothing but abstract chaff, and the man fails to
- you saw last year that our pedagogy is not to be built upon abstract
- we can grasp in the form of abstract principles, that we can bring to mind
- more will come from this feeling than from any abstract principles. If we
- the elaboration of abstract principles. In fact this diversity of life is
- Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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- purposes. All the abstract chatter you find today in books on psychology or
- that would shift over from the more abstract lingual form to the artistic.
- Title: Community Building
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- from drab theories, not from abstract ideas.
- “With abstract words, with preaching in the ordinary
- the ideal becomes an abstract thought but idealizes it in such
- learn to bring this not only to the state of innermost abstract
- we must learn to guide in a spiritual sense, not in an abstract
- have the idea of this spiritual in an abstract way and are
- Title: Community Building
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- reality, is always entirely different from abstract
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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- not think in the abstract terms in which we think today.
- thinking has grown abstract. Our thinking tells us
- existing world contained more than just abstract forces
- abstract notions. The human ancestor knew that an
- we have made into an abstract gravitational force.
- have become an empty abstraction nowadays. Do you think a
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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- had fewer abstract concepts, a culture that found its own
- to abstract concepts. That is where the spiritual nature
- humankind. Nowhere else did human minds rise to abstract
- ideas in such a way that whilst living in these abstract
- one of the Goetheanists, moved in a sphere of abstract
- thoughts and yet, whilst speaking in quite abstract
- abstract thoughts: as alive as people usually are when
- humankind can be brought to an abstract uniformity. That
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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- for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
- and so on tend to be abstract to an extreme degree.
- the spirit. We must learn to fill the abstract formulas
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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- and abstract. It is a question of really seeing the
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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- the abstract mystical stream, the other the abstract
- not in the abstract way of mystics but genuinely, we
- but no knowledge. Experiencing inwardly in a abstract
- for truth in an abstract way within himself; he or she is
- at something else. The opposite extreme is abstract
- unpalatable threshold truth. Everything that is abstract
- feeblemindedness, abstract mysticism leads to
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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- we become one-sided, abstract mystics. The contents of a
- levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
- abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
- matters, not the abstract statements made by one person
- something-ists. We base ourselves on an abstract notion,
- and the like, i.e. on abstract notions. As soon as we
- longer dealing in mere logic and abstract notions, we are
- abstract. Being human we are inclined to say that as soon
- lines, to accept the abstract notions of parties. There
- When we are thinking the usual abstract thoughts, what is
- spirit. It is particularly when we think abstract
- thinking they are quite correct as far as abstract
- abstract thinking being merely an image. It may thus be
- said that when it comes to abstract ideas the physical
- an abstract mysticism that Will give them everything they
- need. We could take up such abstract mysticism, but that
- end to abstract mysticism and to modern science. It will
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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- This only concerns itself with forces that can be abstracted from nature
- and made comprehensible through abstract ideas, in short, the things that
- lives. The abstract thinking we use for mathematics, and the various
- if you use abstract terms to speak of the Christ event that is to come;
- this has grown abstract. It no longer has relevance in ordinary life. The
- abstract religious confessions — oh no! He will use the language of
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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- started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
- their abstract intellect is able to perceive by the
- three human conditions, albeit in an abstract way: the
- not be simply resolved by taking three abstractions and
- build everything up on the basis of three abstract ideas.
- education are certainly abstract, yet there is still the
- individuality. Schiller's abstract ideas therefore still
- go as far as the development of abstract ideas. Goethe
- did not find it possible to form such abstract ideas. He
- developing abstract ideas in his letters on aesthetic
- attempted to express in abstract ideas in his letters on
- abstract ideas personal, Goethe by not going beyond
- no more and no less than that the abstract ideal of
- spirit-man. Our thinking has grown so abstract, however,
- ‘the spirit’, which in fact means in abstract
- from the past. Schiller did not allow abstract ideas to
- beautiful abstract ideas that are gratifying to the soul
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