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{{GZ|Truth, however, is not something about which one can have opinions. One knows a truth or one does not know it. No one can say that the three angles in the triangle are 725 degrees instead of 180.|93|108}}
{{GZ|Truth, however, is not something about which one can have opinions. One knows a truth or one does not know it. No one can say that the three angles in the triangle are 725 degrees instead of 180.|93|108}}
== What is truth? ==
[[File:File:What is truth.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Wikipedia:Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge|Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge]]: ''What is truth?'' – Quid est veritas? (1890); [[w:Pontius Pilate]] to [[Jesus]] {{B|John|18:38}}.]]
=== Sense of truth ===
{{Quote|All that we call inventing, discovering in the higher sense, is the significant exercise, activity of an original feeling for truth, which, formed long ago in silence, leads unexpectedly, with lightning speed, to a fruitful knowledge. It is a revelation coursing from its inner source to its outer unfolding manifestation, which makes man sense his likeness to God. It is a synthesis of world and spirit, which gives the most blessed assurance of the eternal harmony of existence.|[[J. W. Goethe]]:|''Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre''|ref=<ref>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: ''Berliner Ausgabe. Kunsttheoretische Schriften und Übersetzungen'' [Band 17–22], Band 18, Berlin 1960 ff, S. 564 {{Zeno-Werk|Literatur/M/Goethe,+Johann+Wolfgang/Aphorismen+und+Aufzeichnungen/Maximen+und+Reflexionen/Aus+»Wilhelm+Meisters+Wanderjahren«/Betrachtungen+im+Sinne+der+Wanderer|Betrachtungen im Sinne der Wanderer}}</ref> }}


==Literature==
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You will know the truth, and
the truth will set you free.

Truth (from Indo-European: *wēr- "trust, faithfulness, assent"; Latin: veritas; Greek: ἀλήθεια Aletheia, from α privativum and λῆθος, P.P.P. from λανθάνω, "conceal", thus literally meaning "that which is unconcealed") is a basic philosophical concept, but one that has been conceived very differently by different thinkers → truth.

„Truth, however, is not something about which one can have opinions. One knows a truth or one does not know it. No one can say that the three angles in the triangle are 725 degrees instead of 180.“ (Lit.:GA 93, p. 108)

What is truth?

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Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge: What is truth? – Quid est veritas? (1890); w:Pontius Pilate to Jesus John 18:38.

Sense of truth

„All that we call inventing, discovering in the higher sense, is the significant exercise, activity of an original feeling for truth, which, formed long ago in silence, leads unexpectedly, with lightning speed, to a fruitful knowledge. It is a revelation coursing from its inner source to its outer unfolding manifestation, which makes man sense his likeness to God. It is a synthesis of world and spirit, which gives the most blessed assurance of the eternal harmony of existence.“

– J. W. Goethe:: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre[1]


Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.

References

  1. ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Berliner Ausgabe. Kunsttheoretische Schriften und Übersetzungen [Band 17–22], Band 18, Berlin 1960 ff, S. 564 Betrachtungen im Sinne der Wanderer. In: Zeno.org.
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