49 Quotes by Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience...

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

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of “felt life”, as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

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.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.