Susanne Langer Quote

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.


Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942)


The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of ...

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of ...

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of ...

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of ...