Begets Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Music is our myth of the inner life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

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

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

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

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

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

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

— Susanne Katherina Langer