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Pioneering is the work of individuals (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art? (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Music is our myth of the inner life (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Cinema is like dream (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people’s imaginative insight into life (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
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 (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter (Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes)
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