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• Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

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  Humanity, Speech, Normal

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• A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

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  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

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  Self, Tragedy, Comedy

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• A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Problem

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• The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

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  Unique, Events, Doe

  "Philosophy in a New Key". Book by Susanne Langer, 1941.

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• Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

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  Pain, Feelings, Inward

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• ... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

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  Art, Memories, Reality

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• The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

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  Data, Intellectual, Inquiry

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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.

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  Reflection, People, Serious

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• Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

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  Art, Mark, Mysticism

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• Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

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  Destiny, Tragedy, Different

  "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 19, 1953.

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• The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

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  Mind, History Of Life, Development

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• It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

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  Real, Historical, Mind

  "Philosophy in a New Key". Book by Susanne Langer, 1941.

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• Cinema is like dream.

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  Movie, Dream, Cinema

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