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Quotes from Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling — Susanne Langer

1895–1985 United States

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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967)

In a work of art, however modest, the peculiar character of life is always reflected in the fact that it has no parts which keep their qualitative identity in isolation. In the simplest design, the virtual constituents are indivisible, and inalienable from the whole.

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967)

The primal and perennial work of social organization is not to fix the bounds of behavior as permanent lines, which would make all evolutionary process impossible, but to retrieve the vital balance every time some act, public or private, has upset it.

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susanne Langer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.