Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes
Top 33 wise famous quotes and sayings by Susanne Katherina Langer
Susanne Katherina Langer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.
We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.