Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/597/en

Manifest Appearance and Knowledge of the Essential Being

As a ruminant of the highest developmental stage, the cow is a being as metabolically active as it is rhythmic. Its nerve-sense activity, by contrast — setting aside its highly differentiated achievements in smell and taste — recedes more markedly in relation to the environment. Its sensory performances stand primarily in the service of its inner life, its digestive activity. Its intelligent being reveals itself outwardly in a rather phlegmatic, dully dreaming way; inwardly, however, in a high, wisdom-filled instinctive life. Highly introverted, it experiences itself in a kind of inner beholding.