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Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
Approximate author period: c. 1893 AD · industrial
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- Rudolf Steiner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1893 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Rudolf Steiner, based on documented lifetime 1861 to 1925. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78484 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78484 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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