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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
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
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
— 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
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.
— Susanne K. 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
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Music is our myth of the inner life ...
— 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
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.
— 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