“Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.” MindHumansLanguageDoubtProductsMysteriousHuman Mind Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".” MenMindHumansRealFormCertainGivenProcessUnderstandingAnimalIssuesMankindGoes OnConceptsDefinitionsRationalSymbolsDataCharacteristicsUnconsciousHuman MindConceptionTraitsSpontaneousIrrelevantAbstractionRecognizingConfiguration Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.” HumansArtFeelingsFormCreationArt IsSymbolic Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.” HumansMayLongDoeArtGrowthChangeDisciplineActivityLimitsConstantInventionAriseHuman LifeFrustrationExplorationInterferenceExtravaganceLong RoadChange And Growth Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.” HumansDifferentDestinyComedyTragedyFortuneComicHuman LifeFulfillment Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
