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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

— Susanne Langer Philosophical Sketches (1962)

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If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.

Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

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

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967)

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Feeling and Form (1953)

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Feeling and Form (1953)

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