“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking.… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image