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Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters. — Susanne Katherina Langer

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. — Susanne Katherina Langer

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

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art? — Susanne Katherina Langer

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Cinema is like dream. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. — Susanne Katherina Langer

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them. — Susanne Katherina Langer

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. — Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Music is our myth of the inner life ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding. — Susanne Katherina Langer

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

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation. — Susanne Katherina Langer

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live. — Susanne Katherina Langer

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive. — 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

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

Pioneering is the work of individuals ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience ... — Susanne Katherina Langer