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  • Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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    • cannot give it to them in an unvarnished form because they would
    • illusions are necessary because mankind goes through varied forms of education
    • to get rid of the rainbow because you know it to be an illusion of
    • because its literature has proved that its conclusions are in
    • because present-day intellectualism is in an upper layer of reality
    • fundamentally true these things are. But just because this rulership
    • partial truths become a pan of life and cause the most horrible
    • great harm which such one-sidedness would cause. By being faced with
  • Title: Lecture: The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
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    • shall often have to seek the underlying cause of an unhappy mood of
    • reason, and not because they knew less than the astronomers of today,
  • Title: Lecture: The Problem of Destiny
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    • the first cause. There is no loss in human life which does not place
    • or through some other cause coming from outside, through some other
    • life has caused death? Seen from the other side, a sudden and violent
    • produced because this man's physical life is not brought to a
    • present time. In earlier times it was not needed, because the human
    • death and because he had a certain relationship with the spiritual
    • Because man knew something about the spiritual world (although this
    • they are still connected with it because after death this earthly
    • world because here upon the earth we have acquired thoughts connected
    • because the dead person lives in our thoughts consciously and of his
    • of attraction. Because spiritual science is filled with life, a
    • present time in such an intensive form, is established because here
    • and because we offer these thoughts, as it were, to the dead and turn
    • because he cannot understand Plato during a Greek lesson! Man would,
    • this force grows powerless because man must become independent, he
  • Title: Lecture: How Can the Destitution of Soul in Modern Times Be Overcome?
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    • appear by chance but in reality because in former incarnations we had
    • corners should be rubbed off. Because it is in the becoming
    • relationship with others, because this demands inner development,
    • understand each other, perhaps because owing to other karmic
    • will become more and more difficult, because of the increasing need
    • nor close our eyes to the condition of evolution, because this is an
    • because we are living in the age of the consciousness soul, as
    • Understanding for spiritual science would cause
    • soul, because nationalism works in the opposite direction, and
    • post-Atlantean epoch because at that time mankind lived more as
    • them all. But because the urge to develop individuality through the
    • something entirely different. Because men are becoming more and more
    • religious life to unfold, must be kept clearly in view because it is
    • the fifth post-Atlantean epoch of free thinking, because from
    • The consciousness soul — just because it should develop as such
    • difficulties to encounter in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch because
    • more and more intensively cultivated because what threatens us,
    • This can be quite good, and may be necessary, because external
    • given out because humanity should no longer be without them.
    • because the three great true ideals of human understanding,
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  • Title: Lecture: The (Four) Great Virtues
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    • because it is based on spiritual relationships.
    • virtues in particular, because he was able to draw his wisdom from
    • universal events because this liberates us from the narrow judgment
    • harvest from his earlier incarnations. Because we can live in wisdom
    • feeling has had a wonderful inkling of such things. It is because of
    • not because the physical heart-beat in itself is valued so much, as
    • because we are looking at something much more eternal when we
    • time. This she was only able to do, because the Christ Impulse could
    • least power, in the deepest darkness of winter, because we can be
    • had special experiences, because at this time the life of the earth,
  • Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture V: Mystery of the Human Being
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    • disregard the mystery of the human being, either because of
    • is because the rest of our soul life is present and, like the
    • the will pouring into us. It is because of this that we do not
    • will indeed become so, because it is bound to follow from a
    • Allow me this personal remark, because it has something to do
    • cannot be spoken about as a matter of course because in its
    • Goethe, pours into the soul the experience of coldness because
    • first beginnings — albeit instinctively with him because
    • describe it, because I do not want to speak about the
    • the same approach, but still instinctively, because the science
    • directed to a second, essentially different cause in the
    • relationship to outer life! We accept the one because we
    • This was what he was lacking because he never wanted to take
    • Because all these views exist in such a living way, they all
    • into the abyss of un-philosophy, because the danger is not even
    • science of spirit, because for this to happen it is imperative
    • Oskar Hertwig is extraordinarily interesting because he shows
    • America because it cannot be found in the Bible or in Christian
    • world — Christianity — could be endangered because
    • science of spirit does not clash with Christianity, because it
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  • Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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    • man! Everything will have value for us because we are able to bring
    • because the conscious purpose of the gods was working in them. Human
    • Because in earlier times the gods were directly concerned with the
    • impulse is now emerging — and not only because of the enhanced
    • in life worth waiting for, because increasing ripeness comes with the
  • Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture II
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    • needs which cause people to seek each other out; people are united by
    • activities, because super-sensible observation shows him that
    • more or less, into the midst of human relationships. And because of
    • because they hear the word ‘Christ,’ that the preacher is
    • enacted on earth because mankind would not have been able to maintain
    • This is something which opens the way to the Christ, because
    • ever and again kindled anew, because we have made it part of our
  • Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture III
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    • face of the realities, because we have followed the course of things
    • others. He works for others because he, just as much as the others,
    • of the social question, as it has long been called. Because people
    • stands in contradiction to that. Because of the rise of materialism
    • can arise from an economic system: they arise first of all because we
    • have no real labour laws to protect labour; and further because we
    • accomplished. For the cause of the unspiritual character of the
    • valuable, because it strikes one like the confession of a man who
  • Title: Social Future: Lecture I: The Social Question as a Cultural Question, a Question of Equity, and a Question of Economics
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    • causes and motives of different kinds for these horrors, must
    • have to a great extent caused them. Especially now that we are at the
    • supplied with bread because it is produced for him by the community
    • impulse for life. He had broken away from it because he could not
    • be looked upon as ideology. This was the case especially because the
    • unconsciously, because from the consciousness nothing can flow which
    • suffering from the prevailing conditions. Why was this? Because the
    • everything, because it has outgrown both political and cultural life,
    • for this error of judgment to arise? Only because the real structure
    • America, and caused an influx of gold and silver, especially from
    • because the individual needs them, because he desires them. The
    • of the word. What a man can do, because someone believes him to be
  • Title: Social Future: Lecture II: The Organization of a Practical Economic Life on the Associative Basis
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    • single administration, because the one must always interfere with the
    • because of prevailing prejudice, to be impossible of realization.
    • economic life. Because of its independence, the intellectual life
    • order which is the cause of these evils; these will disappear as soon
    • system. All the evils that have arisen are caused by the fact that
    • evils have been removed, because the state has become the capitalist.
    • scheme, because in it the promoters are incapable of taking in the
    • economic socialization of Hungary was caused by some unimportant
    • the evils we see to-day? The modern process of production, because of
    • grow out of very different causes. If we want to know their origin,
    • man in a certain sense from the actual economic process, just because
    • often find things absurd which must, nevertheless, be said because
    • out of capital. This is precisely the cause of all that we call
    • increased warmth is caused by other factors. The market profit
    • certain commodity, because it will have a certain value in the
    • because there is always the question whether there are sufficient
    • to a condition which has now almost ceased to exist because of the
    • the present day, because the direct taxes and income tax do not
  • Title: Social Future: Lecture III: The Task and Limitations of of Democracy, Public and Criminal Law
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    • will hardly acknowledge the truth of the principle, because he has no
    • economic conditions which he must accept because he is economically
    • social conditions has been caused by the want of consideration given
    • And because of the omission of this vital element of feeling in the
    • the cause of those forces in human nature which bring about the
    • reasonable to look for the cause of this process in the kind of
    • In like manner we must ask: What is the cause of the development in
    • every adult is entitled to vote because he is an adult and therefore
    • to a person merely because he is an adult. We must either not
    • as competent to form a judgment, because he is of full age and all
    • we shall see that people deceive themselves, because these are
    • difficult thoughts and because they have not the courage actually to
    • There is unity in the action just because the forces come together
    • caused by modern economic conditions. Most of all he is separated
    • work even without actual pleasure in his production, because he feels
    • probably because we are concerned, either in a super-social or an
    • so because justice and the consciousness of justice have retreated in
  • Title: Social Future: Lecture IV: Cultural Questions, Spiritual Science, Art, Science, Religion
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    • here upon the human soul: What is the cause of this impotence of
    • because it had lost touch with the spiritual world; it could no
    • hardly dare to put the sentiment into words now-a-days, because to
    • life cannot be raised to artistic form, because art has separated
    • because we are unable to give it an artistic form and to surround
    • to carry on his work by intellectualism only; because he believes he
    • because spiritual science believes it understands the methods of
    • of natural causes. But modern human consciousness is not much aware
    • self slumbering within him. Because these things are true I have
    • practice. This must be said, because intellectualism, the fruit of
    • of intellectualism, because, when we occupy ourselves merely with
    • even of nature herself. To them matter is a thing outside, because
    • use the so-called voluntary nerves, because they are the sensory
    • Because countless treatises on the will exist at the present day, or
    • significance, apart from nature, because it transcends nature. He
    • followed here, because the spirit will be spoken of in a new way
    • the reason.? It is because the teacher is unable to take note of
    • because I looked up with reverence to the authority of my teacher,
    • and because there was a living force in his personality through which
    • misunderstood; I mean that it is interesting, because Czernin was a
  • Title: Social Future: Lecture V: The Cooperation of the Spiritual, Political and Economic Departments of Life
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    • justified. Yet it is comprehensible, because in the first place we
    • through. The failure to develop this force is the cause of the
    • but because this was not recognized in the ordering of public life,
    • it has become abstract, devoid of reality. Now, because the influence
    • legal control, because of the evident abuses which the political
    • asunder. And why? Because the moral judgment was diverted into that
    • because they can no longer find purely human impulses, these having
    • into economic life, because there are again the same human beings who
    • nature; it will include, especially, human life itself, because the
    • be unpractical in the sphere of spiritual matters, because only these
    • dispute, because state laws do not always produce the intended
    • any reconstruction, because the social organism lacks a soul, and
    • because he understands it best. He has charge of it as long as he can
    • was looked up to by the community, because the individual persons
    • because the soul is lacking.” But people cannot bring
  • Title: Social Future: Lecture VI: National and International Life in the Threefold Social Organism
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    • is no equal distribution of wealth, and that some evil is the cause
    • these remarks, because such a reproach might possibly be made in
    • actually founded on egoism, because man needs his fellowmen for
    • internationalism. We become national, because the feeling of
    • reverence, to understanding, because it has become a reality to us,
    • because it impresses itself on us, because we give ourselves up to it
    • freely. Whereas we grow into our own nation because we are, so to
    • branches of production can flow into the human soul, because of the
    • historical causes of their existence, are held together for a time by
    • one of the chief causes that led to the disaster of the World-War.
    • catastrophe of the World-War. There were, of course, other causes of
    • the disaster but this is one of the chief causes. Therefore it is
    • and alone has not been lost during the War because it was impossible
    • away into national channels. Why did this happen? Just because from
    • not separate, but unites men, because it can be traced back to the
    • inmost being of man, and because one human being brings forth the
    • same as another, and because he fully understands that other.
    • because there will be no need for an abstract uniformity everywhere;
    • comprehensible, because they have not the courage to approach this
    • What is the cause of the demand for world-economy? Owing to the
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  • Title: Behind the Scenes: Lecture 1
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    • inevitably do so because behind the scenes of world affairs — if
    • I have made these preliminary remarks because I propose today to speak
    • another; they change because a very real evolution takes place in
    • something which may cause either happiness or unhappiness, which has
    • because public opinion moves for the most part in exactly the opposite
    • During the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, simply because of inner
    • spiritual life. And because of this, others less spiritually inclined
    • Simply because man attains the requisite degree of maturity, other
    • they cannot but cause grave anxiety to everybody who is cognisant of
    • Nature-processes with illnesses. This causes anxiety to those
    • possessing real knowledge of these matters because their aim now must
    • Action,” are a cause of grave anxiety to certain human beings who
    • To investigate the causes underlying assassinations committed at
    • those whose deaths had been caused by violence, by assassination,
    • happening because of certain consequences which would have ensued and
    • extremely difficult to speak because they everywhere run counter to
    • In normal life this would be a matter of waiting. But because, as the
    • because of this, individuals intending evil to humanity and who in
    • Because the effort was being made through instruments acquired
    • acquired in any case during the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch ... because
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  • Title: Behind the Scenes: Lecture 2
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    • have the subjective fanaticism of their particular cause. They are
    • quite different. Briefly — and I must be brief because we can
    • monotheist of today has only his own individual Angelos and because
    • because each of them prefers to have its own special God.
    • himself and his own Angelos. And because conditions are so clouded in
    • East — this is what causes endless confusion and chaos. For only
    • caused me to speak to friends in very many places of an event —
    • moreover, men are instinctively prejudiced because they are afraid of
    • definite phenomena appear. Because external observation has become so
    • these thoughts and ideas because they are creative powers in the life
    • of soul, because it is ordained that in times to come, what the human
    • facts of spiritual knowledge because of their materialistic ideas
    • beginning to think of the soul-and-spirit simply because it confronts
    • to discover where the causes lie. Psychoanalysis has actually reached
    • the point of stating that the causes of these frequent manifestations
    • subconscious life of soul for causes of the various forms of hysteria.
    • hysteria; the cause is that something is working in him below the
    • conscious again, because this will cure him and so forth. It is a game
    • game is being played because people are not willing to deepen their
    • thought dwells there because the soul today is still heedless —
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  • Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture III
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    • caused by the reasoning mind or by the sense-impressions, but by the
    • understand these things. They can be understood because the ideas
    • it. — They say this because they are
    • aside because you are accustomed to find everything proved up to the
    • Cosmos, because he has identified himself with the Angelos of each
    • him, every characterisation would have been different, because
    • has arisen entirely in the inner life, because we have a karmic tie
    • was the aim of the Christmas Meeting. Moreover it is only because
  • Title: Lecture: Love and Its Meaning in the World
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    • genuine love. It is because men are subconsciously aware of this that
    • be so, because without the evil, man could not lay hold of the good.
    • Will such a man be deprived of the Christ Impulse because he has not
    • Absolute. This is his interpretation of it because it goes against the
    • “God within”, because they knew nothing of reincarnation. If we
    • When we speak of karma, we mean that which as cause in the one life
    • has its effect in the next. In terms of cause and effect we cannot,
    • also be that our work gives us no joy because we do it simply in order
    • past, and because we gain nothing for the future by paying off these
    • world today because it is a necessity for humanity; but in it lies the
    • that is what we need when we pass through the Gate of Death, because
    • had to be so, because without the evil man could not lay hold of the
    • employed to designate this domain, because it has been employed for
  • Title: Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Man's Astral Body
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    • because we are living in the epoch of the Spiritual Soul we must take
    • question, because of the tremendous complexity of all such questions.
    • could this question have been answered, because the pictures arising
    • this, precisely because he had in him the pictures given by the
    • that — just because it is the Spiritual Soul that is involved — it
    • become practical wisdom in the life of humanity — practical, because
    • man that he does not unfold free will, because they themselves have
    • something. But because this aim must be achieved in earthly humanity
    • not achieve, because in their waking life men slept through it, would
    • there, just because if he were there in the waking state, he
    • change of which I cannot speak, because this is a subject belonging to
    • because it would all be regarded as natural necessity. But it would
    • step in to bring to fulfillment what the Angel is weaving. But because
    • But in the ordinary course this does not happen, because as a rule we
  • Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture I: Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
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    • asleep only because we cannot develop so strong forces if all
    • he believes this, because if one knows only that which exists
    • familiarise yourself with the results, because the logic and
    • be people who are interested in such things because of certain
    • pointed to the real world of the senses because now the time
    • was handed down as tradition, because it was completely
    • for existence that caused the consciousness of our connection
    • today. Why did the old clairvoyant resign? Because he realised:
    • because of his imperfection. This is heroic resignation, full
    • something arrogant because it declares the level of knowledge
    • sensations of negative kind because it cannot be productive, in
    • of the spiritual life as food for the souls. Because in our
  • Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture I: The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
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    • done this because of intimate love to our spiritual movement to
    • these four virtues because he could scoop his wisdom still from
    • apart from wisdom the most. Karma may have caused it that we
    • worldwide importance because we thereby leave the narrow
    • cannot judge egoistically, because if one learns of the world,
    • because it has taken for its development longer than these
    • hands are on the way to become similar to the brain, because
    • spiritual, because the organs already rest. If we do anything
    • possibly biggest fruits from his former incarnations. Because
    • generates fortitude at the right moment, whose absence causes
    • puts so much value on the feeling of the heartbeat, not because
    • one appreciates the physical heartbeat so much, but because we
    • impulsive because one eats or drinks too much. This is the
    • certain way. Only because we experience courage and temperance,
    • already at school. — However, this is not right; because
    • you read them as old persons, because then they serve justice
    • them into life because of our limits of conceiving.
    • Impulse kept on living and caused what should happen.
    • wintertime because we can be persuaded that the internal light,
    • people experienced something quite particular because there the
  • Title: Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
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    • outer, factual proof, simply because, as the most momentous
    • in their midst, because they still possessed certain
    • Credo quia absurdum est (I believe because the
    • was capable of expressing them; firstly because he was living
    • in a mortal body, and secondly, because in a certain respect
    • Only they hate Him because they are fighting against
    • Son of God was crucified; I am not ashamed because men must
    • means to be believed because it is absurd.’ Prorsus
    • fact is certain, because it is impossible.’
    • because it is shameful. Christ died; we Must believe it,
    • because it is absurd. Christ rose again; we must believe it,
    • because it is impossible.’ Just imagine what a typical
    • taken effect in history. This came about because of human
    • own personality, because the Consciousness Soul had been
    • pernicious course. It was diverted not merely because the
    • because — since this was an Event beyond the grasp of
    • that men were not to believe in the spirit. ... This was because
    • very weakened form, because they do not realise that they are
    • because the words are only gestures and the real point is to
    • way, because in reading what has been the outcome of
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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    • decades, occupied because this question has not only become
    • lectures various things which are connected to the cause and
    • way into people's lives. Now, because these tragic events have
    • or that spiritual effort; they smile because for them it is an
    • position regarding the social question, because such a small
    • to earlier causes — it indicates that forces of change and
    • being seen as mere cause and effect — one could call it the
    • sober, arid connection of cause and effect expressed at certain
    • straight line connecting cause and effect. Then again, we can
    • development from cause to effect. Now again a revolutionary
    • validated by not merely following the straight line of cause
    • however scientific battles, economic causes; they represent
    • Because earlier ruling circles presented a science which no
    • that this economic life could be the only reality because for
    • This was an unbelievably critical element because this gave the
    • this disgust grows because his labour is dependent on supply
    • lost to them. Nationalization was striven for because it was
    • narrowest boundaries, these have caused a multitude of bad luck
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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    • — because every human soul shares in the work of the
    • own production, because the economic life involves the
    • ask you to consider comprehensively, because it is important
    • impossible it is to instil equality into social life because
    • Because as soon as the true sense of these three ideals become
    • causes quiet shudders when things are truthfully defined. To
    • these wars to their causes and their unfolding in relation to
    • because they don't have the will forces to really involve
    • Today we stand, because during the last decade humanity has
    • which needs implementation through people, because in it lie
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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    • Because this is so the souls of these modern proletarians were
    • discussions because they eventually lead towards social
    • theoretical trend in true discussions because the facts are
    • because they have acquired nothing socially in their life of
    • return to spirituality because usually those who are addressed
    • can't imagine this spiritually, precisely because those who
    • finely thought-out social ideals are not the worst, because as
    • because we have not sharpened our gaze in this area.
    • associated with fanaticism because these fanatics appear to
    • cause unending evil as typical representatives of
    • imagined, because it is the healing medicine for the laming
    • ideology and because ideology was seen as nothing, the soul was
    • instance, because these things have a relative independence in
    • So the worker labours for free because he only earns as much as
    • originates from his labour, and as a result, because he is only
    • find no outcome to this question because the imminent sense of
    • Just because they work independently yet together, they have
    • snatching labour from the character of goods, because this
    • again be absorbed because the economic body has the tendency to
    • representation had laws. It only came from there because people
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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    • regarding it as cause and effect in order to always reach a
    • circles, because of it wanting to conquer the state's
    • Because this indicates something hidden and masked in the newer
    • social organism to form itself instinctively. Because the
    • because modern humanity, even though they consider themselves
    • in the social organism, because it is being considered in its
    • rules, then human labour would be used up. Because the leading
    • themselves independently because they are working side by side
    • which must be based more on democracy because the state life
    • cause or something similar, or a collection of causes, with the
    • activity of something or its causes or collection of causes
    • fall back on him, also not in his actual yield, because it can
    • social organism. Because the bourgeois leading circles have had
    • because it is known that the entire actual productive spiritual
    • down to it — because between the platonic thoughts
    • calculated as the point of origin and the causes of these
    • has been made available for this appeal. I mention this because
    • again because in a certain sense humanity's evolution comes up
    • mankind by orientating our forces towards new thinking; because
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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    • it extraordinarily lucky because it corresponds in tone to what
    • but because I am of the conviction that if the Proletarian
    • don't say, the scientist, because obviously the scientific
    • work back again, just because when it is freed, while it
    • relation of one person to another, because I'm thinking of
    • regulated through independent economic life, because economic
    • members of the social organism. Then they will, because they
    • organisations will come to an end because they must balance out
    • but I only mention this to you because there are within the
    • and educational states because people are not divided into
    • because in Austria the various language regions are mixed and
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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    • because of this foundation, while the other one must create the
    • economic life, because the modern life of the Proletarian was
    • this because I could observe how this work was being executed.
    • take it that the leading classes are at cause for what has come
    • the cause and which can only be given from the modern economic
    • order to the social organism, because the leading cultural
    • economic process, because in reality something is added which
    • labour can be no goods because it can't have the character
    • enormous, an all-encompassing white lie, because labour is sold
    • has been said that because private capitalism has made modern
    • basically because — and you might find this grotesque, a
    • what the ruling classes had to give him because they didn't
    • come about precisely because the modern worker has been
    • order for these three systems not to cause chaos among one
    • have for the modern state because this they created according
    • free understanding that manual work was the precursor, because
    • handled, a person can connect to his work, because he knows:
    • because it can't be any other way, that a person must also do
    • process has caused damage which is linked to so much
    • workers because they are not seen from both sides in the
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