“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.” KnowsWayMindPersonsFeelingsRunningVoiceDealsKnownMagicLimitsCapacityFairsWeightInfiniteBlowSpeedRangeEnduranceArrows Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“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.” WorldMindEarthKnownDevelopmentHighestIndividuationPrehistoryHistory Of Life Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.” ArtKnownArt IsFunctionBeholder Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.” IfsKnowsMenHeartUseRealityFacesKnownEmotionalSacredFavorsPracticalsReactionsEsteemSymbolsAlteredEmotional Reactions Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.” DoeFactsIndividualProcessKnownEventsUniqueAimPatternsLinksHistorianHypothetical Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
