“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.” KindReligionCultureExpressionDramaticGesturesPrimitiveSymbolicBegetsSuperstitious Author: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.” PeopleSeriousReflectionInsightRitualPrimitiveImaginativeDeposits Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.” ThinkingRealMatterLightLanguageGenuinePrimitive Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.” WorldRealMaterialsErrorsPhysicsMathematicalConceptionReal WorldOrgansPrimitiveAbstractionEpistemology Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
