All Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes
- If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. Funny
- Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. Art
- 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… Discoveries
- Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. Discoveries
- The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given. Answer
- 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,… Activity
- 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. Answers
- 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,… Conception
- A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them. Characterized
- The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. Articulate
- The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. Doth
- 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… Comedy
- Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. Artistic
- A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote… Apt
- If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and… Art
- The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. Art
- The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can… Artist
- The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions… All
- Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. Art