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Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
Susanne Katherina Langer
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
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Magic, then, is not a method, but a language it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.
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Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.
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One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.
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To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.
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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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The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
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