Susanne Langer - Primitive Quotes

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Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Susanne Langer

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

Susanne Langer

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.

Susanne 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.

Susanne Langer