Someone who thinks in a materialistic way easily believes one can only arrive at understanding through abstract concepts. It takes great effort for him to come to the insight that the other soul faculties are just as necessary to understand the world, as is the intellect. It is not just meant metaphorically when it is said that one can understand just as well with the feelings, the heart or with a sense of becoming aware of something – as it were sensing it – as with the intellect. Intellectual understanding is only one means to understand the things of this world.
Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 34 – Die Erziehung des Kindes vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft – 1907 (page 334)
Translated by Nesta Carsten-Krüger
Previously posted on June 17, 2015
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