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“Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.”

Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

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Susanne Katherina Langer

Susanne Katherina Langer was an American philosopher of German birth, renowned for her work in aesthetics, semiotics, cognitive psychology, and philosophical anthropology. Her contributions have had a profound impact on 20th-century philosophy. more

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“The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.”

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“Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.”

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“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.”

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