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Susanne Katherina Langer has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
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Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had…
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road…
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The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out…
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The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,…
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A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
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The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.…
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are…
— Jean Giraudoux
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I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and…
— Louis Kahn
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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. .…
— Louise Bourgeois
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That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.
— Unknown Author
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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful…
— William H. Gass
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Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
— May Sarton
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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
— Thomas Keneally
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The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
— Emma Bonino
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The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences,…
— Robert Grudin
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving…
— Virginia Woolf
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
— Octavio Paz
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