Human Individuality 103Making mental pictures already gives our conceptual
life an individual stamp. After all, each of us has a stand-
point from which to view the world. Our concepts con-
nect themselves to our percepts. We think universal
concepts in our own special way. This characteristic qual-
ity is a result of our standpoint in the world, of the sphere
of perception connected to our place in life.
In contrast to this particularity is another, dependent on
our individual constitution. How we are constituted, after
all, makes for a special, well-defined entity. We each con-
nect special feelings with our percepts, and do so in the
most varying degrees of intensity. This is the individual
aspect of our personality. It remains left over after we
have accounted for the specificities of the stage on which
we act out our lives.
A feeling-life completely devoid of thought must grad-
ually lose all connection with the world. Yet for human
beings, oriented as they are toward wholeness, knowl-
edge of things will go hand in hand with education and
development of the life of feeling.
Feeling is the means by which concepts first gain con-
cretelife.