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 Copy Share Image
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
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… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
