“Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”

— Rudolf Steiner

Truth and Knowledge http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA003/TaK/GA003_index.html, preface

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Austrian esotericist 1861–1925

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