"The limits of thought are not so much……" — Susanne Katherina Langer
"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, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences."
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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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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…
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Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
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