"The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary,……" — Susanne Katherina Langer
"The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter."
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Susanne Katherina Langer
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19 Quotes by Susanne Katherina Langer
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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…
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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…
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a…
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The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only…
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The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet…
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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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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created…
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Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
— Francis Bacon
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
— George Chapman
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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not…
— John Bunyan
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in…
— Thomas Brooks
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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in…
— Arthur Symons
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
— William Shakespeare
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
— William Shakespeare
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