Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Philosophical, Science, Order

  "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, 1953.

• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Animal, Men

• What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Understanding, Feelings

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