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“One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer
“Music is our myth of the inner life ...”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Music #Music Is #Myth
“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Music #Feelings #Emotion
“Cinema is like dream.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Movie #Dream
“The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Running #Blow #Feelings
“Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Mind #Doubt #Mysterious
“The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Lying #Intellectual #Fit
“Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Passion #Natural
“the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Feelings #Intelligence #Intuition
“Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Common Sense #Common
“common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Common Sense #Common #Tricky
“Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Art #Inadequate #Mysticism
“It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Children #Believe #Princess
“The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Mind #World #Earth
“... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Art #Memories #Reality
“All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Art #Creative #Persistent
“value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Consciousness #Values
“Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Humanity
“Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Reflection #Serious #Insight
“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ...”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Religion #Culture #Kind
“Pioneering is the work of individuals ...”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Individual
“Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience ...”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Philosophy #Make Sense
“The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ...”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Memories #Past
“As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Tragedy #Comedy #Rhythm
“The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Culture #City Life
“The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Art #Reality #Giving
“Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms ...”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Art #Term #Art Is
“Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Pain #Feelings #Emotion
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Philosophical #Science #Understanding
“Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.”
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Music Is

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