Susanne Langer - Language Quotes

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Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

Susanne Langer

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

Susanne Langer

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

Susanne Langer

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

Susanne Langer